obstructive sleep apnoea a cause of chronic cough阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停引起的慢性咳嗽.pdfVIP

Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Obstructive sleep apnoea: a cause of chronic cough 3 1 1 1 Surinder S Birring* , Alvin J Ing , Kevin Chan , Gavina Cossa , 2 2 2 Sergio Matos , Michael DL Morgan and Ian D Pavord Address: 1Respiratory Investigation Unit, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia, 2Institute for Lung Health, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK and 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kings College Hospital, London, UK Email: Surinder S Birring* - surinder.birring@kch.nhs.uk; Alvin J Ing - ajing@.au; Kevin Chan - kev.the.man@.au; Gavina Cossa - cossag@.au; Sergio Matos - aleixomatos@; Michael DL Morgan - mike.morgan@uhl-tr.nhs.uk; Ian D Pavord - ian.pavord@uhl-tr.nhs.uk * Corresponding author Published: 2 July 2007 Received: 19 March 2007 Accepted: 2 July 2007 Cough 2007, 3:7 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-3-7 This article is available from: /content/3/1/7 © 2007 Birring 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 Chronic cough is a common reason for presentation to both general practice and respiratory clinics. In up to 25% of cases, the cause rema