Association between clinical and pulmonary function features and diagnosis of cough variant asthma: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare physical information, such as age, sex, height, weight, body mass index (BMI) and pulmonary function test (PFT) results, between cough variant asthma (CVA) and chronic cough (CC) and establish a diagnostic model of CVA.

Design

A case-control study of patients with suspected CVA enrolled at The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University.

Setting

One leader unit of the National Key Specialised Pulmonary Disease Cooperation Group in China.

Participants

Enrolled 545 patients who underwent PFT and bronchial provocation tests.

Outcome measures

We obtained physical information and pulmonary test data and established the model using logistic regression analysis. The Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test, area under the

SUBMITTER: Ni K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11848655 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature