Defining the risk factors for acute, subacute and chronic cough: a cross-sectional study in a Finnish adult employee population

BMJ Open
Anne M LättiHeikki O Koskela

Abstract

Chronic cough is linked to various long-standing risk factors like asthma, chronic rhinitis and oesophageal reflux disease. On the contrary, acute and subacute cough are usually considered to be caused by acute respiratory infections. Little is known about the possible long-standing risk factors for acute and subacute cough. In this study, we have identified the long-standing risk factors for acute, subacute and chronic cough in order to identify the risk factors specifically associated with chronic cough. A comprehensive 80-item questionnaire was sent via email to the participants. A community-based study to all public service employees of two towns in central Finland. There were 13 980 employees, of them 3697 responded (26.4%). Among the responders, there were 199 subjects with current daily acute cough (duration <3 weeks, prevalence 5.4%), 126 subjects with current daily subacute cough (duration 3-8 weeks, prevalence 3.4%) and 267 subjects with current daily chronic cough (duration >8 weeks, prevalence 7.2%). The risk factors that associated with each cough subtype. The subjects without any cough formed the reference group. Several risk factors were associated with both short and long cough subtypes namely family history of ...Continue Reading

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Citations

Nov 18, 2018·ERJ Open Research·Heikki O KoskelaJuha Pekkanen
Mar 25, 2019·Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin·Abhinav MathurGraeme P Currie
May 3, 2019·Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine·Samson Wakuma AbayaBente E Moen
Dec 7, 2019·Current Gastroenterology Reports·Takeshi Kanno, Paul Moayyedi
Jun 1, 2019·ERJ Open Research·Anne M LättiHeikki O Koskela
Sep 14, 2019·The European Respiratory Journal·Alyn H MoriceAngela Zacharasiewicz
Aug 2, 2020·The Journal of Asthma : Official Journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma·Tomoko TajiriAkio Niimi
Jun 5, 2020·ERJ Open Research·Anne M LättiHeikki O Koskela
Oct 31, 2020·The European Respiratory Journal·Johnmary T ArinzeGuy G Brusselle
Jul 16, 2021·European Respiratory Review : an Official Journal of the European Respiratory Society·Elena KumImran Satia
Sep 23, 2019·Respiratory Medicine·Hanna M NurmiHeikki O Koskela

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