title: [Chronic cough in schoolchildren from the Bordeaux area. Results on 15000 adolescents].
abstract: A large epidemiological survey carried out in the spring of 1981 among the teenagers attending school in Bordeaux and its surroundings enabled us to study the relationship between the history of broncho-pulmonary diseases in childhood and infancy and chronic cough in teenagers. The population consisted of 15,247 pupils (average age, 16.5 years). There were 47% boys. Data collection was carried out by means of self-administered questionnaires filled out in class. Besides socio-demographic information and questions about smoking habits, the pupils answered questions concerning present respiratory symptoms and history of bronchopulmonary diseases before 2 years of age and between ages 2 and 6. A chronic cough was present in 4.3% of the pupils. This proportion was significantly higher in girls, older pupils, smokers, those belonging to lower social classes and asthmatics. The relationships between history of bronchopulmonary diseases during childhood and infancy and present chronic cough were highly significant and remained so after adjustments for confounding factors. This relationship existed also in the sub-population of non-asthmatic pupils.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000453:epidemiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003371:Cough / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: La toux chronique des lycéens de l'agglomération bordelaise. Résultats concernant 15 000 adolescents.