Incidence of asthma progression towards asthma-COPD overlap in old women

Conclusions: Our findings provide first evidence for the use of drug administrative databases to identify ACO in old women with asthma. Active smoking, late onset asthma, and obesity increased the risk of progression towards ACO.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 19, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Chanoine, S., Marchal, C., Temam, S., Dumas, O., Le Moual, N., Pison, C., Fournier, A., Severi, G., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Varraso, R., Siroux, V. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research