Frailty and muscle weakness in elderly patients with asthma and their association with cumulative lifetime oral corticosteroid exposure

Frailty and muscle weakness in elderly patients with asthma and their association with cumulative lifetime oral corticosteroid exposure

Background: Frailty is a geriatric syndrome of age-related physiological decline, which is associated with higher mortality and decreased healthy life expectancy, and muscle weakness is one of the presentations of frailty. We investigated an association between lifetime oral corticosteroid (OCS) exp...

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Main Authors: Kai Ryu, Yuma Fukutomi, Eiji Nakatani, Maki Iwata, Kisako Nagayama, Koichi Yano, Yuto Nakamura, Yuto Hamada, Kentaro Watai, Yosuke Kamide, Kiyoshi Sekiya, Jun Araya, Kazuyoshi Kuwano, Masami Taniguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-04-01
Series:Allergology International
Subjects:
Asthma
Elderly
Frailty
Healthy life expectancy
Oral corticosteroids
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893022001228

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