Satoru Terada, Hisako Matsumoto, Kenta Nishi, Mariko Kogo, Natsuko Nomura, Noriyuki Tashima, Chie Morimoto, Hironobu Sunadome, Tadao Nagasaki, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Yoshinari Nakatsuka, Kimihiko Murase, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Yasuharu Tabara, Kazuhiro Sonomura, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kazuo Chin, Toyohiro Hirai
Little is known about the association of prolonged cough, a common and troublesome symptom, with metabolic pathways. We aimed to clarify this association using data from the Nagahama cohort, a prospective study of participants from the general population. Self-report questionnaires on prolonged cough were collected at baseline and 5-year follow-up assessments. Blood tests at follow-up were used for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. The association between metabolites and prolonged cough was examined using the partial least squares discriminant analysis and multiple regression analysis...
August 25, 2023: Scientific Reports