Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Prevalence and clinical manifestations of gastro-oesophageal reflux-associated chronic cough in the Japanese population. | Cough BioMed Central Open Access Short report Prevalence and clinical manifestations of gastro-oesophageal reflux-associated chronic cough in the Japanese population Hisako Matsumoto Akio Niimi Masaya Takemura Tetsuya Ueda Masafumi Yamaguchi Hirofumi Matsuoka Makiko Jinnai Kazuo Chin and Michiaki Mishima Address Department of Respiratory Medicine Kyoto University Kyoto Japan Email Hisako Matsumoto - hmatsumo@ Akio Niimi - niimi@ Masaya Takemura - m-takemura@ Tetsuya Ueda - uedate@ Masafumi Yamaguchi - myama@ Hirofumi Matsuoka - hiromtok@ Makiko Jinnai - majin43@ Kazuo Chin - chink@ Michiaki Mishima - mishima@ Corresponding author Published 08 January 2007 Received 16 May 2006 Cough 2007 3 1 dOi l745-9974-3-l Accepted 08 January 2007 This article is available from http content 3 l l 2007 Matsumoto et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Gastro-oesophageal reflux GOR is one of the most common causes of chronic cough in Western countries responsible for 10 to 40 of cases. In Japan however GOR-associated chronic cough GOR-CC has been rarely reported and its clinical manifestation including frequency of concomitant reflux laryngitis is poorly known. We have analyzed prevalence and clinical characteristics of patients who were diagnosed as having GOR-CC among adult patients with chronic cough 8 weeks who visited our asthma and cough clinic over a period of l9 months. Diagnosis of GOR-CC was based on the response of coughing to a .
