Sentences with phrase «trade center cough»

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

Using analysis of variance, t - tests, or chi - square tests as appropriate, we compared the clinical characteristics among exposure groups and among subjects with World Trade Center cough according to prognostic subgroups: those with predominantly upper - airway symptoms (29 subjects) or lower - airway symptoms (95 subjects) or those with bronchial responsiveness (249 subjects).

It just became painfully obvious within a couple of months that people were damaged, and the press was filled with stories about the World Trade Center cough.

It just became painfully obvious that people were damaged, and the press was filled with stories about the World Trade Center cough.