Comorbidities of asthma in the elderly in Argentina
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Results Total 152 patients were included and their average age (SD) were 66.83 years (6.52), 73% women, 78% Caucasian and 22% Hispanic. Arterial hypertension was the most frequent comorbidity (27%), followed by chronic rhino sinusitis (14%), RGE (10%), diabetes (5%) and obesity (5%). Other comorbidities were also searched, but they were only found in a few patients, such as eosinophilia esophagitis, nasal polyps, dyslipemia, coronary heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. Specifically with respect to allergic comorbidities, patients presented mainly chronic rhino sinusitis (13,8%), and seasonal (16%) and perennial rhinitis (16%), or both chronic rhino sinusitis and perennial rhinitis simultaneously (18%). Only a few patients exhibited chronic rhino sinusitis and seasonal rhinitis (0,65%). Considering the well-known association between allergic rhinitis and early-onset asthma (EOA), we observed that most of the patients with EOA exhibited allergic rhinitis (63,4%), but we also observed that half of the patients with long-onset asthma (48%) presented chronic rhino sinusitis or allergic rhinitis.
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