An unproductive cough
Coughs are annoying but harmless, right? Not quite. Patients who are on a breed of blood pressure medications called ACE inhibitors can develop “a persistent, non-productive cough that keeps them up at night,” Brown says, and yet many “let it go on and on and on.” It’s just one example of a medication side effect that patients ignore – and of a condition that, in many cases, could have been prevented through lifestyle changes, Brown says. Tobin takes a similar stance: “Diet and exercise,” he says, “is the key to a healthy and happy life.”
