title: Night-time cough in children with acute wheezing and with upper respiratory tract infection.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate night-time cough patterns in children with either acute wheezing or an URTI, and to correlate them to the clinical diagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Night-time cough variables of 49 children diagnosed with acute wheezing and with URTI were compared using a portable cough monitoring instrument placed in the child's room.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children with acute wheezing had significantly more coughs per night, a longer duration of cough sounds, a higher number of coughing bouts per night, and a higher number of coughs per second within a bout, than children with an URTI. Children with acute wheezing coughed significantly more between 23.00 and 01.00, whereas between 01.00 and 06.00 there was no significant difference in the number of coughs between the two groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant differences were found in night-time cough variables between children with an acute episode of wheezing and children with an URTI. This could be useful in clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Division of Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. medcad@bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Urkin
authors.forename: Yaron
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishay
authors.forename: Natalya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bilenko
authors.forename: Yair
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bar-David
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gazala
authors.forename: Analia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mijalovsky
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lapidus
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003371:Cough / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010507:Periodicity; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology*; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000150:complications*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*