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Association of Snoring With Chronic Bronchitis—Reply
Inkyung Baik, PhD;
Seung Hoon Lee, MD, PhD;
Ji Ho Choi, MD;
Robert D. Abbott, PhD;
Jehyeong Kim, MD, PhD;
Kihwan Jung, MD, PhD;
Chol Shin, MD, PhD
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Ifeacho and Narula suggest that snoring may be associated with chronic rhinosinusitis rather than with chronic bronchitis on the basis of the following 2 reasons: (1) nasal obstruction resulting from rhinosinusitis may cause snoring and (2) postnasal drip, commonly occurring in patients with rhinosinusitis, may be misperceived as sputum production, which chronic bronchitis is characterized by. Our data from the baseline questionnaire could not include information on the diagnosis of rhinosinusitis, although we have taken into account a broad range of confounding factors including self-reports on a physician diagnosis of rhinitis in the study.1 To prospectively investigate the association between snoring and the risk of chronic bronchitis, however, our study excluded at baseline persons who reported the presence of cough . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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