Allergic diseases in the elderly

Demographic distribution of the population is progressively changing with the proportion of elderly persons increasing in most societies. This entails that there is a need to evaluate the impact of common diseases, such as asthma and other allergic conditions, in this age segment. Frailty, comorbidi...

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Autores principales: Cardona, Victoria, Guilarte, Mar, Luengo, Olga, Labrador-Horrillo, Moises, Sala-Cunill, Anna, Garriga, Teresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22409889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-7022-1-11
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author Cardona, Victoria
Guilarte, Mar
Luengo, Olga
Labrador-Horrillo, Moises
Sala-Cunill, Anna
Garriga, Teresa
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Luengo, Olga
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Sala-Cunill, Anna
Garriga, Teresa
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description Demographic distribution of the population is progressively changing with the proportion of elderly persons increasing in most societies. This entails that there is a need to evaluate the impact of common diseases, such as asthma and other allergic conditions, in this age segment. Frailty, comorbidities and polymedication are some of the factors that condition management in geriatric patients. The objective of this review is to highlight the characteristics of allergic diseases in older age groups, from the influence of immunosenescence, to particular clinical implications and management issues, such as drug interactions or age-related side effects.
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spelling pubmed-33393282012-05-01 Allergic diseases in the elderly Cardona, Victoria Guilarte, Mar Luengo, Olga Labrador-Horrillo, Moises Sala-Cunill, Anna Garriga, Teresa Clin Transl Allergy Review Demographic distribution of the population is progressively changing with the proportion of elderly persons increasing in most societies. This entails that there is a need to evaluate the impact of common diseases, such as asthma and other allergic conditions, in this age segment. Frailty, comorbidities and polymedication are some of the factors that condition management in geriatric patients. The objective of this review is to highlight the characteristics of allergic diseases in older age groups, from the influence of immunosenescence, to particular clinical implications and management issues, such as drug interactions or age-related side effects. BioMed Central 2011-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3339328/ /pubmed/22409889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-7022-1-11 Text en Copyright ©2011 Cardona et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sala-Cunill, Anna
Garriga, Teresa
Allergic diseases in the elderly
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