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Lung diseases in the elderly.
Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger In the present issue of Respiration, Quadrelli and Roncoroni [1] compare characteristics of asthma between 99 younger patients and 50 elderly asthmatics. Their results suggest that the severity of asthma increases with age and that the increase in severity is related to the duration of the disease rather than to age itself: severity is greater i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Respiration
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0025-7931,1423-0356
DOI: 10.1159/000029292