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Background  The relationships between chronic productive cough (CPC), environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure, and asthma are not clearly established in children. Therefore, we wished to determine the prevalence of CPC and examine the relationships between CPC, ETS exposure, and asthma in young teenagers.    Methods  We performed a cross sectional survey of 2397 Seattle middle school students, 11–15 years old, using written and video respiratory-symptom questionnaires. We defined  CPC  as – daily cough productive of phlegm for at least 3 months out of the year;  current asthma  as –  yes  to "Have you had wheezing or whistling in your chest in the past 12 months?"  and   yes in the past year  to any of the four video wheezing/asthma video scenarios; and  ETS exposure  as exposed to tobacco smoke at least several hours each day. We used multilogistic  regression to examine relationships between CPC, asthma, and ETS  exposure and included in the model the potentially confounding variables race, gender, and allergic rhinitis.    Results  The prevalence of CPC was 7.2%. Forty-seven percent (82/173) of children with CPC met criteria for current asthma, while only 10% (214/2224) of those without CPC had current asthma. Current asthma had the strongest associated with CPC, odds ratio (OR) 6.4 [95% CI 4.5–9.0], and ETS was independently associated with both CPC, OR 2.7 [1.8–4.1] and asthma, OR 2.7 [1.5–4.7].    Conclusion  In a population of young teenagers, CPC was strongly associated with report of current asthma symptoms and also with ETS exposure. This suggests that asthma and ETS exposure may contribute to CPC in children. However, this study was not designed to determine whether asthma was the actual cause of CPC in this population of children.

Chronic productive cough in school children: prevalence and associations with asthma and environmental tobacco smoke exposure.