Mediators of Inflammation

Research Article

Altered Innate Immune Responses in Neutrophils from Patients with Well- and Suboptimally Controlled Asthma

Table 1

Patient characteristics of healthy controls and asthmatics.


	Healthy controls	Asthma, well-controlled	Asthma, suboptimally controlled

	9	11	7
Age years, mean (±SEM)	60.22 (±5.12)	62.64 (±3.97)	62.57 (±4.02)
Gender (M/F)	6/3	7/4	5/2
ACQ, mean (±SEM)	0 (±0)	0.32 (±0.08)	1.33 (±0.17)
FEV₁% pred. (±SEM)	92.78 (±5.98)	80.55 (±7.71)	70.29 (±8.09)
FEV₁/FVC% pred. (±SEM)	101.8 (±1.65)	88.36 (±4.51)	77.43 (±5.27)
Short-acting agonist use (Y/N)	0/9	9/0	7/0

, , and compared to healthy controls.
compared to patients with asthma with good symptom control.
ACQ: asthma control questionnaire.
FEV₁: forced expiratory volume in 1 second.
FVC: forced vital capacity.