Respiratory morbidity and lung function after whooping-cough.
360 primary-school children with a history of whooping-cough were shown to have experienced an excess of other chest illnesses compared with 711 controls. This susceptibility may, however, have antedated the whooping-cough. Current respiratory symptoms were also more common in children who had had whooping-cough, though no differences were found on physical examination. No differences were found in lung function between cases and controls. Whooping-cough, as experienced by British children in recent years, is unlikely to cause subsequent respiratory morbidity and does not result in impaired lung function in later childhood.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012306:Risk; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000503:physiopathology*