Table 1.

Patient demographics: the case series and the percentage with prior asthma, insomnia, and anxiety at diagnosis

	Male	Female
Number of subjects	17	45
Average age (range)	54 (19–80)	48 (8–90)
Previous asthma	31%	64%
% with insomnia	95%	91%
% aware of anxiety	31%	72%
% with traumatic life event/work stress	41%	32%
% on antidepressant treatment at presentation	12%	65%
% with spontaneous and persistent VCD symptoms	7%	16%

Abbreviation: VCD, vocal cord dysfunction.