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Article: Cough in Patients With SCI.(spinal cord injuries)
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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To the Editor:
In the November 1999 issue of Physical Therapy, Lin et al[1] published an interesting article about the cough threshold in people with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). They justified the investigation based on the fact that interruption of sympathetic outflow in these people conducts to an unopposed vagal tone, possibly resulting in an increase in cough sensitivity. They concluded that there is a decrease in the cough threshold in individuals with SCI, besides the additional information that smoking could also increase this sensitivity.
Unfortunately, to completely validate their results and conclusions, the authors omitted 2 important ...