Background Around 16 million cases of whooping cough (pertussis) occur worldwide each year, mostly in low‐income countries. Much of the morbidity of whooping cough in children …
Background Cough is one of the most common presenting symptoms to general practitioners. The objective of this article is to collate the pediatric components of the CHEST …
Cough is an intrinsic protective reflex. However, chronic cough affects a considerable proportion of general population and has a major impact on quality of life. A recent paradigm …
A Niimi - Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2013 - Elsevier
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lower airways, involving various cells such as eosinophils, and cytokines and mediators. Cyteinyl-leukotrienes (cys-LTs) are one of the …
AB Chang, RG Berkowitz - Otolaryngologic Clinics of North …, 2010 - oto.theclinics.com
Otolaryngologists are sometimes referred children with cough as cough is the most common symptom that results in medical consultations. 1–3 In the United States, 29.5 million visits to …
AB Chang - Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2009 - Elsevier
The management of cough in children should be etiologically based. This requires that all children with cough should be carefully evaluated and managed differently than adults …
BACKGROUND: An important step toward improvement of the conduct of pediatric clinical research is the standardization of the ages of children to be included in pediatric trials and …
AB Chang - Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Studies on cough have come a long way but many shortfalls still exist. These shortfalls can be attributed to: the lack of randomized controlled studies with a focus on cough; studies not …