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Gender differences in cough reflex sensitivities and oral chemesthesis |
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| Male |
Female |
p value |
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| Number |
14 |
14 |
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| Age (year) |
34.2 ± 2.0 |
38.5 ± 4.1 |
n.s. |
| Cough reflex sensitivity |
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| Capsaicin (Log μM) |
1.41 ± 0.12 |
1.00 ± 0.11 |
<0.03 |
| Capsiate (Log μM) |
2.72 ± 0.10 |
2.37 ± 0.13 |
<0.05 |
| Oral chemesthesis |
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| Capsaicin (Log μM) |
1.51 ± 0.17 |
1.58 ± 0.13 |
n.s. |
| Capsiate (Log μM) |
2.22 ± 0.15 |
2.22 ± 0.14 |
n.s. |
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Data are mean ± S.E. P-values are comparisons between males and females in each variable by the Mann-Whitney test. n.s. denotes not significant. | |||
Yamasaki et al. Cough 2007 3:9 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-3-9 |
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