Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Complaining of Chronic Cough

French, Cynthia T.; Fletcher, Kenneth E.; Irwin, Richard S.

doi:10.1378/chest.125.2.482

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“…Clinics by French et al [9] and Birring et al [6] In contrast to French et al [14], a gender difference was not found in the impact on health-related QoL. This may be because we did not use validated questionnaires such as the cough-specific QoL questionnaire (CQLQ) [15] and the Leicester cough questionnaire (LCQ) [6] to assess health-related QoL.…”

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confidence: 98%

The Impact of Chronic Cough: A Cross-Sectional European Survey

Chamberlain

Garrod

Douiri

et al. 2015

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Impact of Chronic Cough: A Cross-Sectional European Survey

Chamberlain

Garrod

Douiri

et al. 2015

Lung

209

193

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“…Female patients outnumber males in most cough clinics. Female sex is associated with a higher cough frequency and severity and a more heightened cough reflex compared with males [30,31]. Our findings suggest that the initial assessment of patients with SDB should enquire about the presence of cough, particularly in female patients.…”

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confidence: 64%

Chronic cough in patients with sleep-disordered breathing

Chan¹,

Ing²,

Laks³

et al. 2010

European Respiratory Journal

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Chronic cough can be the sole presenting symptom for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. We investigated the prevalence, severity and factors associated with chronic cough in patients with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).We invited 108 consecutive patients who had been referred for evaluation of SDB to complete a comprehensive questionnaire on respiratory and sleep health, which included the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (cough specific quality of life; LCQ), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and the Mayo Clinic gastro-oesophageal questionnaire. Chronic cough was defined as cough for a duration of .2 months.33% of patients with SDB reported a chronic cough. Patients with a chronic cough had impaired cough related-quality of life affecting all health domains (mean¡SEM LCQ score 17.7¡0.7; normal521). Patients with SDB and chronic cough were predominantly females (61% versus 17%; p,0.001) and reported more nocturnal heartburn (28% versus 5%; p50.03) and rhinitis (44% versus 14%; p50.02) compared to those without SDB. There were no significant differences in ESS, respiratory disturbance index, body mass index, or symptoms of breathlessness, wheeze, snoring, dry mouth and choking between those with cough and those without.Chronic cough is prevalent in patients with SDB and is associated with female sex, symptoms of nocturnal heartburn and rhinitis. Further studies are required to investigate the impact of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on cough associated with SDB to explore the mechanism of this association.

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“…Canada's National Population Health), Finkelstein showed that patients with complaints of chronic cough associated with asthma were 1.35-times more likely to have UI than subjects without chronic cough [5] . In a prospective study of patients with complaints of chronic cough, using a cough-specific healthrelated QOL questionnaire, French et al [6] found that women with chronic cough were more likely to complain of 'wetting pants' than women without chronic cough and men with or without chronic cough. Finally, in a let- ter, Prys-Picard and Niven [7] investigated the prevalence of UI in 75 females attending the Manchester Severe Asthma Service (Manchester, UK) using the Incontinence Quality of Life questionnaire [8] .…”

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Prospective Questionnaire-Based Evaluation of the Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Women with Chronic Cough

Shariat¹,

Hilton

Gruchalla

2009

Urol Int

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Purpose: Because chronic cough leads to repeated increases in intra-abdominal pressure, it might cause or unmask stress urinary incontinence (SUI). To test this hypothesis, we performed a cross-sectional prospective survey of women with chronic cough and female subjects without cough symptoms. Methods: A group of women with chronic cough (n = 297) presenting at a specialty asthma/allergy clinic over an 18-month period and a control group (n = 106) completed a self-administered survey that included the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI)-6 questionnaire and a global quality of life (QOL) question. Subjects on medication for bladder symptoms (n = 14) or who had undergone prior anti-incontinence surgery (n = 29) were excluded. Results: 263 patients and 97 control subjects met criteria for analysis. Chronic cough patients were older than control subjects (median 41 versus 35 years; p < 0.001). There was no difference in weight between groups (p = 0.544). The UDI-6 question responses correlated with each other and with the responses to the QOL questions (p values ≤0.002). Chronic cough patients were more bothered by urinary frequency (UDI question 1, 33 vs. 20%, p = 0.018), sense of incomplete emptying (UDI question 5, 10 vs. 3%, p = 0.047). There was no statistical difference in SUI between chronic cough patients and controls (UDI question 3, 24 vs. 15%, p = 0.059). Conclusions: Based on this exploratory study, we found no statistically significant difference in the prevalence of SUI between patients with or without chronic cough. However, increased urinary frequency may have had a protective effect on SUI, thereby masking a larger difference in SUI.

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Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Complaining of Chronic Cough

Cited by 96 publications

References 13 publications

The Impact of Chronic Cough: A Cross-Sectional European Survey

The Impact of Chronic Cough: A Cross-Sectional European Survey

Chronic cough in patients with sleep-disordered breathing

Prospective Questionnaire-Based Evaluation of the Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Women with Chronic Cough

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