Figure 1

The relationship between CPC and asthmaThe relationship between CPC and asthma. This Venn diagram depicts the relationship between chronic productive cough (CPC) and asthma. See text for definitions of the current, possible, and no asthma groups. While the criteria for these groups make them mutually exclusive, they are shown as overlapping to indicate that in reality there is crossover between the groups. The numbers in parentheses are the number of children with the condition, e.g. current asthma. The proportions of children in each group with CPC (28%, 9.5%, and 2.3% for the current asthma, possible asthma, and no asthma groups, respectively), were statistically significantly different, p < 0.001 for each comparison.