Chronic cough and sputum production are associated with worse clinical outcomes in stable asthma

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1501-1508

  Thomson, Neil C ^a   Chaudhuri, Rekha ^a   Messow, C Martina ^b   Spears, Mark ^a   Macnee, William ^c   Connell, Martin ^c   Murchison, John T ^c   Sproule, Michael ^d   McSharry, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; Asthma control; Cough; Exacerbations; Smokers; Sputum

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC COUGH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCUS SECRETION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SMOKING; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM;

ASTHMA; ASTHMA CONTROL; COUGH; EXACERBATIONS; SMOKERS; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; SPUTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884816415     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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