Chronic cough, with symptoms lasting more than eight weeks, affects approximately one in 10 adults. Cough is among the most common reasons for seeking medical care in the United States, yet chronic cough is difficult to treat.
Regenstrief InstituteAug 23 2024 One of the largest studies of chronic cough and one of the first to explore the use of opioids, which are known to suppress cough, to treat these patients, has found that 20 percent of patients with chronic cough received a prescription for a cough suppressant containing an opioid.
Chronic cough is a symptom, a condition that can have a variety of causes including asthma, acid reflux, "postnasal drip", neurological issues, or a reaction to a drug. The researchers studied the electronic health records of 23,210 patients seen by clinicians for cough at least three times over a period of about two to four months and 229,538 patients with non-chronic cough, ages 18 to 85. The deidentified data were obtained from the Indiana Network for Patient Care , one of the nation's first and largest clinical data repositories. It was created by Regenstrief Institute and is managed by the Indiana Health Information Exchange .
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