Chronic Cough News

Current treatments for chronic cough fail to effectively resolve its symptoms, indicating a need to develop new therapies, according to the results of a survey of allergy specialists published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Worse cough-specific quality of life appears to be associated with risk for respiratory hospitalization, death and lung transplantation in patients with interstitial lung disease, researchers reported in Chest.

Supplementation with fish oil and high-dose vitamin D during pregnancy reduced the risk for croup in early childhood, researchers reported at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

In China, chronic cough is prevalent and associated with poorer health status, especially among adults aged at least 50 years and those with COPD or small airway dysfunction, researchers reported.

U.S. health care spending on respiratory conditions, especially chronic conditions like asthma and COPD, increased dramatically from 1996 to 2016, researchers reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Self-reported blast exposure predicted respiratory symptoms and COPD among post 9/11 veterans who were deployed to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

Frequent productive cough is an important indicator of adverse outcomes in individuals with asthma and/or COPD, according to results of the NOVELTY study published in Respiratory Medicine.

NIH researchers using machine learning models identified key characteristics of people who have or likely have long COVID.

Cough-specific quality of life was independently associated with respiratory hospitalization, mortality and lung transplantation among patients with interstitial lung disease, researchers reported in Chest.

WHO updated its air quality database to include ground measurements of annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, as well as measurements of particulate matter with diameters equal to or smaller than 10 m or 2.5 m.