Comparative analysis of clinical, physiological, temperamental and personality characteristics of elderly subjects and young subjects with asthma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease of a complex etiology in which genetic, environmental and personality variables are important factors determining the development of complicated strategies related to coping with stress and temperament traits. Our thesis is that coping styles in asthmatic patients are modified by the environment (chronic inflammation and stress) which affects individual temperament traits in the course of time. Thus, patient age is one of factors which determine the clinical image of asthma and its natural history.

Aim

The aim of the study was to evaluate the variables describing stress coping styles and temperament in young (18 to 35 years old) and elderly asthmatics (aged ≥60 years).

Material and methods

A total of 200 patients, 104 elder

SUBMITTER: Panek MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647458 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature