What is it about?
Older patients with asthma have small (peripheral) airway obstruction compared to younger patients using spirometry, impulse oscillometry (IOS), and CT scanning shown as air-trapping. Elderly asthma patients also have greater airway wall thickening and less atopic status than non-elderly asthma.
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Why is it important?
We can know the treatment target for elderly patients with asthma.
Perspectives
It is important to treat small airway dysfunction for older patients with asthma.
Hideki Inoue
Kyoto Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Pathophysiological characteristics of asthma in the elderly: a comprehensive study, Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, November 2014, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2014.08.002.
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