The Associations of Long-Term Temperature and Precipitation with Chronic Respiratory Symptoms: Projections for the Changing Climate.

Purpose: To clarify the associations of climatic indices with chronic respiratory symptoms, with a final aim to approximate the effects of climate change on them.

Methods: An e-mail survey was directed to the members of the Finnish Pensioners` Federation. The mean 20-years' precipitation and temperature in each subjects' home municipality were obtained from the Finnish Meteorological Institute, separately for summer and winter.

Severity grading of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire in chronic cough.

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Recurrent Cough in the Elderly: A Forgotten Entity.

Introduction: Recurrent cough is little researched in adults. We investigated the prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of recurrent cough, and compared the results to those of isolated chronic cough.

Methods: Cross-sectional email survey in an elderly community-based population.

Characteristics of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis -associated cough. a case-control study.

Background: Most patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) complain of cough. IPF-associated cough is widely characterized as dry or non-productive. The aim of this study was to compare chronic cough in early stage IPF patients to cough in subjects with chronic cough from a community-based sample and, especially, to investigate whether cough in IPF is less productive than chronic cough in a community-based sample.

Cough Sensitivity to Several External Triggers is Associated with Multiple Non-respiratory Symptoms.

Purpose: Enhanced responsiveness to external triggers is thought to reflect hypersensitivity of the cough reflex. It may involve an enhanced sensitivity of the afferent nerves in the airways and/or an abnormal processing of the afferent information by the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS processing of cough has been shown to involve the same regions as those in symptom amplification, a phenomenon that often manifests as multiple symptoms.

Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour Due to Cough in Finnish Elderly: Too Much and Too Little.

Introduction: Cough-related healthcare-seeking has not been studied specifically in the elderly, although chronic cough is most prevalent among them. We studied the frequencies and predictors of any (≥ 1) and repeated (≥ 3) doctor's visits due to any cough episode during the past year, and due to the current cough episode.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional email survey among a Finnish community-based elderly population.

Validation of the cough phenotype TBQ among elderly Finnish subjects.

Background: Phenotypes can be utilised in the clinical management of disorders. Approaches to phenotype disorders have evolved from subjective expert opinion to data-driven methodologies. A previous cluster analysis among working-age subjects with cough revealed a phenotype TBQ (triggers, background disorders, quality-of-life impairment), which included 38% of the subjects with cough.

Cough in the Elderly During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Introduction: The prevalence of chronic cough increases with age. However, data on the prevalence and background disorders of cough subtypes in the elderly are scarce. The objective of this study was to identify the point prevalence and risk factors of acute, subacute, and chronic cough in an elderly community-based population.

[Results of percutaneous coronary angioplasty and effect on the patients' condition and symptoms].

More than 10,000 percutaneous coronary angioplasties are performed in Finland annually. We examined in a three-year follow-up the results of percutaneous coronary angioplasty performed for 875 patients at the Kuopio University Hospital. Procedural and end-point data were collected from patient records and by mail inquiry.