%0 Journal Article
%T Changing etiological frequency of chronic cough in a tertiary  hospital in Shanghai, China
%A Cuiqin Shi
%A Hongmei Ding
%A Jing Pan
%A Li Yu
%A Ran Dong
%A Siwan Wen
%A Xianghuai Xu
%A Yiming Yu
%A Zhongmin Qiu
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2019
%R 10.21037/jtd.2019.07.86
%X Chronic cough is defined as cough lasting for ¡Ý8 weeks with a normal chest radiograph, and its incidence is about 9.6%, or even up to 18.1% in certain areas (1). It negatively affects the quality of life of patients and its treatment has been a challenge in clinical practice (2). The common causes of chronic cough are cough variant asthma (CVA), upper airway cough syndrome/postnasal drip syndrome (UACS/PNDs), non-asthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis (NAEB), gastroesophageal reflux-related chronic cough (GERC) and atopic cough (AC) (3,4). These causes account for 70¨C95% of chronic cough (5)
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