Chronic Cough in Menopause: Could Low Estrogen Be the Cause?

One in three. In a study published in BMC Women’s Health in 2023, 66 of 200 generally healthy postmenopausal women (33 percent) reported a cough lasting more than 8 weeks. These weren’t smokers or women with a diagnosis that explained the cough; the researchers at University Hospital Marburg in Germany excluded both, along with anyone on hormone therapy. The women who coughed and the women who didn’t looked the same on paper (age, BMI, years since menopause, number of medical conditions, medications), but the coughing group scored higher on the Menopause… Video by YouTube channel.