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Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Prevalence of psychomorbidity among patients with chronic cough 1 2 2 1 Lorcan PA McGarvey* , Carol Carton , Lucy A Gamble , Liam G Heaney , 1 3 1 Richard Shepherd , Madeline Ennis and Joseph MacMahon Address: 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Belfast City Hospital, N. Ireland, UK, 2Department of Clinical Psychology, Belfast City Hospital, N. Ireland, UK and 3Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The Queens University of Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Email: Lorcan PA McGarvey* - l.mcgarvey@qub.ac.uk; Carol Carton - c.carton@bch.n-i.nhs.uk; Lucy A Gamble - l.gamble@bch.n-i.nhs.uk; Liam G Heaney - l.heaney@qub.ac.uk; Richard Shepherd - r.shepherd@bch.n-i.nhs.uk; Madeline Ennis - m.ennis@qub.ac.uk; Joseph MacMahon - j.macmahon@bch.n-i.nhs.uk * Corresponding author Published: 16 June 2006 Received: 24 March 2006 Accepted: 16 June 2006 Cough 2006, 2:4 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-2-4 This article is available from: /content/2/1/4 © 2006 McGarvey 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: Chronic cough may cau