Is there clinical value in performing capsaicin cough challenges in patients with severe asthma?

Jenny King; James Wingfield Digby; Imran Satia

doi:10.1183/20734735.0034-2021

Is there clinical value in performing capsaicin cough challenges in patients with severe asthma?

Breathe (Sheff). 2021 Jun;17(2):210034. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0034-2021.

Authors

Jenny King¹, James Wingfield Digby¹, Imran Satia^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
² Department of Medicine, McMaster University Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
³ Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Heightened capsaicin cough sensitivity is independently associated with poor asthma control in moderate-to-severe asthma patients https://bit.ly/3mkbLkI.