A portable automatic cough analyser in the ambulatory assessment of cough

Table 1 Characteristics of the patients with respiratory diseases included in the study.

Nr	Gender F/M	Age (years)	Diagnosis	Dyspnoea (Borg scale)	Spirometry (% of predicted)
					FEV1	FVC IN	FVC EX	FEV1/FVC
1	F	55	Asthma	3	106	104	108	83
2	F	43	Asthma	3	65	76	81	69
3	F	19	Asthma	-	105	109	110	83
4	M	34	Asthma	0	76	87	88	71
5	F	36	Asthma	4	101	102	109	79
6	F	58	Asthma	2	37	48	51	61
7	M	48	BHR	2	99	107	110	72
8	F	55	Asthma	5	125	137	143	74
9	F	56	Asthma	5	58	65	72	68
10	F	46	Asthma	-	104	104	110	81
11	F	56	Asthma	-	106	108	111	81
12	M	53	Asthma	1	96	121	122	62
13	F	48	BHR	2	107	122	127	72
14	F	31	BHR	1	118	122	126	81
15	M	51	Asthma	0	88	113	113	62
16	M	53	BHR	0.5	147	158	155	76

Patients 3, 10 and 11 did not complete the Borg scale; BHR - bronchial hyper-reactivity

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