---
title: coughing
framework: healthkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/coughing
---

# coughing

A category type that records coughing as a symptom.

## Declaration

```swift
static let coughing: HKCategoryTypeIdentifier
```

## Discussion

Discussion These samples use values from the  HKCategoryValueSeverity enumeration.

## See Also

### Heart and Lung

- [chestTightnessOrPain](healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/chesttightnessorpain.md)
- [rapidPoundingOrFlutteringHeartbeat](healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/rapidpoundingorflutteringheartbeat.md)
- [shortnessOfBreath](healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/shortnessofbreath.md)
- [skippedHeartbeat](healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/skippedheartbeat.md)
- [wheezing](healthkit/hkcategorytypeidentifier/wheezing.md)