Is long sleep duration associated with higher mortality in older people independent of frailty : a 5-year cohort study?
Frailty and long nighttime sleep duration of 10 or more hours were independently associated with 5-year mortality in older adults.
These data provide support for the hypothesis that the clinical association between asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) does not involve an exacerbation of asthma by GERD-associated aspiration of gastric fluid, but may cause immune reactions unrelated to the asthma pathology.