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Table 2 Concomitant conditions potentially contributing to cough identified in study subjects

From: PCR based bronchoscopic detection of common respiratory pathogens in chronic cough: a case control study

  

Chronic cough

 

Healthy volunteers

All patients

Lymphocytes <10%

Lymphocytes >20%

n

10

20

10

10

Concomitant Conditions

    

 PND

-

6

3

3

 PND & Asthma

-

1

-

1

 Reflux Disease

-

3

1

2

 Reflux & EB

-

1

-

1

 EB

-

1

1

-

 TPO

-

1

1

-

 No Trigger

-

5

3

2

 Bronchiectasis

-

1

-

1

 Spontaneous resolution

-

1

1

-

  1. PND = post nasal drip, EB = eosinophilic bronchitis, TPO = tracheopathia osteochondroplasia.