{"id":1860,"date":"2013-12-24T18:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T21:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2013-12-24T18:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T21:36:56","slug":"a-whole-lot-of-coughing-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/12\/24\/1860\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole Lot of Coughing Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old euphemism, &#8220;It\u2019s not the cough that will carry you off,&#8221; mostly rings true, but the cough is still one of the leading reasons to head to a doctor, according to the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by NCHS. A cough is also one of the top reasons why people visit hospital outpatient departments, according to another NCHS health care survey, the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/ahcd\/nhamcs_outpatient\/2010_opd_web_tables.pdf\" title=\"Outpatient Department Summary Tables\">Table 7 here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>NCHS data show that the cough is the most common symptom that makes Americans visit the doctor&#8217;s office (only &#8220;progress visits&#8221; and &#8220;general medical examinations&#8221; rank higher on the list of 20 principal reasons for visiting a physician&#8217;s office, according to Table 9 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/web_tables.htm#2010\" title=\"NAMCS and NHAMCS Web Tables\">2010 NAMCS Summary Tables<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>NCHS&#8217;s parent agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, advises that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/protect\/covercough.htm\" title=\"Cover Your Cough\">covering your cough<\/a> can make a huge difference in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/protect\/stopgerms.htm\" title=\"Stopping the Spread of Germs\">stopping the spread of germs<\/a> this &#8212; or any &#8212; flu season.  Not to mention &#8211; it&#8217;s the polite thing to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old euphemism, &#8220;It\u2019s not the cough that will carry you off,&#8221; mostly rings true, but the cough is still one of the leading reasons to head to a doctor, according to the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by NCHS. A cough is also one of the top reasons why people visit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}