Sputum Cell Counts and Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux, and Cough or Asthma

Krishnan Parameswaran; Christopher J Allen; Dennis Kamada; Ann Efthimiadis; Mehran Anvari; Frederick E Hargreave

doi:10.1155/2001/418490

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2001)

Sputum Cell Counts and Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux, and Cough or Asthma

Krishnan Parameswaran,
Christopher J Allen,
Dennis Kamada,
Ann Efthimiadis,
Mehran Anvari,
Frederick E Hargreave

Affiliations

Krishnan Parameswaran: Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Christopher J Allen: Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dennis Kamada: Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ann Efthimiadis: Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Mehran Anvari: Asthma Research Group, Department of Surgery, St Joseph’s Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Frederick E Hargreave: Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2001/418490
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 4
pp. 239 – 244

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is commonly associated with chronic cough and asthma, but there is little or no information on the nature of any associated airway inflammation.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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