[PDF] Top 20 Clinical and functional features of bronchial asthma in elderly patients

... frequent in women, possibly due to hormonal influences (29). In our study, although the percentage of women with LOA was higher than that of women with LSA, this was not significant, possibly ... See full document

... impact of a single placebo device training intervention, delivered regularly in elderly patients with Asthma or COPD, on major clinical outcomes after a one-year follow-up, when ... See full document

... both elderly and young adult patients and it was detected as a significant risk factor in the univariate analyses for bronchial asthma in both ...with asthma ... See full document

... out of the 14 patients receiving short courses of systemic per-oral and/ or intravenous ...ICS and short/long- acting bronchodilators or combined inhalers for 12 months to 12 years ... See full document

... years of age [1]. Respiratory events occurring during the first years of life, even when transient, may influence the expression of asthma and lung function during childhood and ... See full document

... domains of the questionnaire. For example, in our study we found lower AQLQ scores for the domain related to activity limitations, as was also found by Turner et al ...score in that study was ... See full document

... Bronchial asthma is a major public health concern, affecting 100-150 million people worldwide and accounts for an estimated 1,80,000 deaths per ...escalating in India. Unani medicine is ... See full document

... reversibility of airway obstruction in asthma may justify a larger difference in the objective perception of improvement in respiratory symptoms by patients when the ... See full document

... objective of this work was to verify the degree and type of heart damage of elderly chagasic patients seen at an outpatient referral center and to compare them with the ... See full document

... 819 patients were attended. For the compo- sition of the sample of this study, the medical records that met the eligibility criteria were selected: patients referred from pri- mary health care ... See full document

... correct in only a minority of ...performance and DK was the inhaler with the best ...groups. Elderly and non-elderly asthmatics showed similar errors at each step of ... See full document

... 23 In terms of the global sample of asthmatic patients, when we analyzed asthma medication separately, inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) were the most frequent drug ...combination of ... See full document

... observational and descriptive study. The target population consisted of individuals with a confirmed diagnosis of Bronchial Asthma, being regularly followed up at Pulmonology or ... See full document

... different in elderly patients, in comparison with younger asthmatics, and given that it is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the former age group it has a great impact on ... See full document

... level of the patients could have influenced the results, for example, by contributing to the presence of some clinical indicators that are not exclusive to impaired memory but that are also ... See full document

... Most of the individuals did not report significant problems in the dimensions used, with the exception of the physical functioning, where individuals repor- ted moderate ...income and those ... See full document

... material and offers wide range of mechanical properties with simultaneous high wear resistance and dumping capacity ...that in many cases production of ductile iron ensure fulfillment ... See full document

... banks and its availability and function be communicated to consumers (Tan & Thoen, 2001; Suh & Han, ...use of trust seals such as DigiCert, VeriSign, BBB ...seal in their web site. It ... See full document

... object of increasing interest for interventional cardiologists, providing several advantages, including a reduction of bleeding and major adverse cardio- vascular event (MACE) ...though ... See full document

... 7Member, National Asthma Commission; Chief, Allergy Department of the ‘William Soler” Children’s University Hospital, Ministry of Public Health... been no statistical a[r] ... See full document