When asthma emerges during adulthood, it presents unique challenges compared to childhood-onset cases. Adult asthma typically develops after age 20, though it can begin at any point in life.

Patients with asthma have impaired diaphragm thickening fraction compared with healthy individuals without asthma.

Historically, RSV has been studied mainly in infants and older adults, but recent research shows that it also poses a ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Asthma is a condition that makes breathing difficult due to swelling and tightening of ...

Viral infections are the most common asthma triggers in adults and children. A viral wheeze in toddlers is different than asthma, although some children with the condition eventually develop asthma.

Taking effectiveness, safety, and cost into account, we have chosen the following steroid inhalers as our Best Buys for treating adult and childhood asthma. Beclomethasone (QVAR): For adults ...

When he was 10, she noticed he was wheezing. She took him to a hospital and learned he had asthma, a chronic condition that ...

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Adolescence is a vulnerable time of life, filled with emotional, physical, and social upheaval. For adolescents aged 12–19 years with chronic medical conditions such as asthma, it is important for ...

Asthma and type 2 diabetes are two important causes of morbidity globally. We examined both the association of type 2 diabetes with asthma in Swedish adults and the familial co-aggregation of the ...