Profiles of Cough and Associated Risk Factors in Nonhospitalized Individuals With SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Infection: Cross-Sectional Online Survey in China

Tingting Xu   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Yuehan Chen   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Wenzhi Zhan   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Kian Fan Chung   ^{2, 3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Zhongmin Qiu   ^{4 *} , MD, PhD ;   Kewu Huang   ^{5 *} , MD, PhD ;   Ruchong Chen   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Jiaxing Xie   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Gang Wang   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Min Zhang   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Xuefen Wang   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Hongmei Yao   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Xiuqing Liao   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Yunhui Zhang   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Guojun Zhang   ¹² , MD, PhD ;   Wei Zhang   ¹³ , MD, PhD ;   Dejun Sun   ¹⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Jia Zhu   ¹⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Shujuan Jiang   ¹⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Juntao Feng   ¹⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Jianping Zhao   ¹⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Gengyun Sun   ¹⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Huaqiong Huang   ²⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Jianyong Zhang   ²¹ , MD, PhD ;   Lingwei Wang   ²² , MD, PhD ;   Feng Wu   ²³ , MD, PhD ;   Suyun Li   ²⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Pusheng Xu   ²⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Chunhua Chi   ²⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Ping Chen   ²⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Mei Jiang   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Wen He   ¹ , MD ;   Lianrong Huang   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Wei Luo   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Shiyue Li   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Nanshan Zhong   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Kefang Lai   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   China Cough Coalition   ^{28 *}

¹ State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom

³ Experimental Studies Unit, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

⁵ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

⁶ West China School of Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

⁷ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

⁹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

¹⁰ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fuling Center Hospital of Chongqing, Chongqing, China

¹¹ The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China

¹² Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

¹³ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

¹⁴ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Hospital, Hohhot, China

¹⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

¹⁶ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China

¹⁷ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

¹⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

¹⁹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical University of Anhui, Hefei, China

²⁰ Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease of Zhejiang Province, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

²¹ The Second Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China

²² Shenzhen People's Hospital, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen, China

²³ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Huizhou Third People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Huizhou, China

²⁴ The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

²⁵ The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

²⁶ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

²⁷ General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China

²⁸ See Acknowledgments, Guangzhou, China

*these authors contributed equally