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Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Intra-abdominal Pressures during Voluntary and Reflex Cough 1 2 3 W Robert Addington* , Robert E Stephens , Michael M Phelipa , 4 5 John G Widdicombe and Robin R Ockey 1 2 Address: W. Robert Addington, D.O., 101 E. Florida Avenue, Melbourne, FL, 32901, 321-984-4628, USA, Department of Anatomy, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Kansas City, MO, USA, 3Melbourne, FL, USA, 4 116 Pepys Road, London SW208NY, UK and 5Orem, UT, USA Email: W Robert Addington* - wraddington@; Robert E Stephens - rstephens@; Michael M Phelipa - MPHELIPA@; John G Widdicombe - JohnWiddicombeJ@; Robin R Ockey - robinockey@ * Corresponding author Published: 30 April 2008 Received: 22 January 2008 Accepted: 30 April 2008 Cough 2008, 4:2 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-4-2 This article is available from: /content/4/1/2 © 2008 Addington et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Involuntary coughing such as that evoked from the larynx, the laryngeal cough reflex