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Cough in COPD: correlation of objective monitoring with cough challenge and subjective assessments.

Smith JA, Owen E, Earis J, Woodcock AA

Chest. 2006;130(2):379-385.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The relationships between objective cough rates, cough reflex sensitivity, subjective estimates of cough frequency, and cough-related quality of life in patients with COPD are poorly understood.SUBJECTS: Twenty-six patients with stable COPD who complained of cough (76.9% men; mean +/- SD age, 68.7 +/- 6.9 years; mean FEV(1), 54.2 +/- 12.0% of predicted; median smoking history, 42.4 pack-years [range, 13 to 135 pack-years]).METHODS: Subjects performed a cough challenge test, ambulatory daytime and overnight sound recordings, scored the severity of cough (0 to 5 score and visual analog scale) for each recording period, and completed a cough-specific quality of life questionnaire (CQLQ).Coughs were counted manually and quantified in terms of cough seconds per hour (cs/h): the number of seconds within the recording that contain cough.RESULTS: Overall median time spent coughing was 7.5 cs/h (range, 2.7 to 23.1 cs/h; daytime median, 12.4 cs/h [range, 3.3 to 40.4 cs/h]; overnight, 1.9 cs/h [0.0 to 19.0 cs/h]) [p = <0.01].Median log concentration of citric acid eliciting five coughs (C5) was - 0.9 mol/L (range, - 1.5 to 0.0 mol/L).Day time but not overnight time spent coughing was significantly correlated with log C5 (log C5 r = - 0.49, p = 0.02, and r = - 0.20, p = 0.37, respectively).Subjective cough scores and visual analog scales were moderately associated with objective time spent coughing: daytime (r = 0.37, p = 0.03, and r = 0.41, p = 0.03) and overnight (r = 0.48, p = <0.01, and r = 0.5, p = 0.01), respectively.CONCLUSIONS: Subjective measures of cough and cough reflex sensitivity are statistically related to time spent coughing in patients with COPD, but with low-to-moderate levels of correlation.These measures have insufficient predictive value to substitute for objective time spent coughing; however, in conjunction with the CQLQ, they may provide a qualitative dimension to the assessment of cough.

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United States
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130
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2
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379
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385
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379-385
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10.1378/chest.130.2.379
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Manchester eScholar ID:
uk-ac-man-scw:1d14442
Created:
30th August, 2009, 13:11:31
Last modified by:
Smith, Jaclyn
Last modified:
2nd October, 2009, 03:12:02

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