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Query: UMLS:C0037090 (Respiratory symptoms)
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The prevalence of chronic cough and phlegm production has been studied in 3916 young married adults, with recent new births and young children in their families, on six consecutive annual occasions. Among those who were smokers, in all years of the study more men than women reported respiratory symptoms. Respiratory symptoms were also reported more commonly among men than among women who did not smoke at all, whereas no sex difference in symptom prevalence was apparent among men and women who changed their smoking habits during the study. Equal numbers of men stopped or started smoking on their own initiative during the second three years of the study, whereas twice as many women started smoking as stopped in the same period. Men who had been smokers in the first three years and who spontaneously stopped smoking during the second three years showed a progressive decline in respiratory symptoms to a level similar to that of nonsmokers.
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PMID:Change in respiratory symptom prevalence in adults who alter their smoking habits. 86 55

Standardized surveys of cardiorespiratory findings were conducted among male telephone company employees 40 to 59 years of age, and repeated five to six years later. Cigarette smokers had considerably more cough, phlegm, and chronic wheeze and slightly more nasal catarrh and breathlessness on exertion than nonsmokers. Pipe and cigar smokers had intermediate levels of these symptoms. Men who quit cigarette smoking between two surveys showed considerable improvement in cough and phlegm. Respiratory symptoms and among smokers of nonfilter cigarettes. Forced expiratory volume decreased and sputum volume increased among all groups over the observation period. Both changes were least marked among men who quit smoking cigarettes and were most marked among those who continued to smoke cigarettes.
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PMID:Cigarette smoking and changes in respiratory findings. 542 26