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Rape, asthma, and dysfunctional breathing [Letter to the Editor]
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Rape, asthma, and dysfunctional breathing [Letter to the Editor]

Robert J. Hancox, Jane Morgan, Nigel Dickson, Jennie Connor and Joanne M. Baxter
European Respiratory Journal, Vol.55(4), pp.1902455-1902455
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02455-2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/14587
Appears in  The Dunedin Study

Abstract

exhaled nitric oxide nitric oxide unclassified drug anxiety asthma breathing disorder child abuse disease association dysfunctional breathing hyperventilation syndrome lung function Nijmegen questionnaire patient counseling prescription prevalence questionnaire rape risk factors self-report sexual abuse sexual assault sexual intercourse social status wheezing World Health Organization breathing breathing exercises respiration respiration disorders
Functional breathing disorders are common, but poorly understood, causes of respiratory symptoms and often co-exist with asthma and other respiratory diseases [1–3]. Hyperventilation syndrome is the most recognised form of dysfunctional breathing It has long been suspected that dysfunctional breathing may have emotional origins, but there is little empirical evidence to support this [4].
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