- Title
- Managing the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Creator
- Knight, Anne
- Relation
- Australian Prescriber: an independent review Vol. 43, Issue 1, p. 7-11
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.18773/austprescr.2020.002
- Publisher
- National Prescribing Service
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Approximately 20% of patients with obstructive lung disease have features of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These patients have a higher burden of disease and increased exacerbations compared to those with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease alone. Management should address dominant clinical features in each individual patient, and comorbidities should be considered. There are several interventions that are useful in the management of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As inhaled corticosteroids are key to the management of asthma, they are recommended in patients with overlapping chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Subject
- asthma; bronchodilators; COPD; corticosteroids; eosinophils; inhalers; obstructive lung disease
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1421395
- Identifier
- uon:37731
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-8008
- Rights
- © 2020 NPS MedicineWise. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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