The Step Further to Understand the Role of Cytosolic Phospholipase A₂ Alpha and Group X Secretory Phospholipase A₂ in Allergic Inflammation: Pilot Study

Table 1

Characteristics of patients with bronchial asthma and healthy subjects.

	Asthmatic patients	Healthy volunteers
	7	7
Age years	48 (39–72)	36 (24–41)
Women/men	5/2	5/2
Smokers/nonsmokers	1/7	0/7
Inhaled GCS g/day^a	1508 (960–1600)	0
Systemic GCS mg/day^b	18,8 (7–20)	0
FEV1 %	74.6	N/A
Allergic to; Der p1	6/7	No
Allergic to; Fel d1	3/7	No

Doses were calculated as budesonide equivalents. ^bDoses were calculated as prednisone equivalents.