Article
Asthma-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overlap Syndrome: Nothing New Under the Sun.
Immunology and allergy clinics of North America - 1 Aug 2016
Putcha Nirupama, Wise Robert A
Abstract excerpt
The debate about whether asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are distinct clinical syndromes is not new; there is heightened interest in understanding the group of individuals with obstructive lung disease who seem to have elements of both conditions because recent studies have demonstrated increased risk for respiratory events and exacerbations. We describe the clinical characteristics of...
Topics
- Asthma
- Consensus
- Consensus Development Conferences as Topic
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Prevalence
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Risk Factors
- Syndrome