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Condition significantly impacts women's quality of life.
2004 MAR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chronic cough affects women more severely than men and greatly impacts their quality of life, study results show.
A University of Massachusetts Medical School study published in the February 2004 issue of Chest, a journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, found that more women than men seek medical care for chronic cough because their quality of life is more compromised by physical and psychosocial issues. The study also found that women with chronic cough who seek medical treatment for cough are more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from urinary incontinence and consequent feelings of embarrassment.
Cynthia T. French, MS, and Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, from the UMass Department of Medicine, and Kenneth Fletcher, PhD, of the UMass Department of Psychiatry, examined the relationship between gender and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic cough who seek medical attention and the extent to which chronic cough affected health-related quality of life. They analyzed data collected from a cough specific quality of life questionnaire (CQLQ) completed by 172 patients (116 women and 56 men) seeking medical attention for chronic cough and a control group of 31 smokers (22 women and 9 men) who were observed to be coughing but were not complaining of cough.
The CQLQ measures quality of life in patients with chronic cough in regard to 28 adverse complaints grouped into six subscales: physical complaints; psychosocial issues; functional abilities; emotional well-being; extreme physical complaints; and personal safety fears.
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