Clinical Study

Distal Airway Impairment in Obese Normoreactive Women

Table 4

Adjusted and Spearman coefficients for the relationship between FVC DRS and FEV1 DRS.

PopulationsAdjusted Spearman correlation coefficient

Entire population
 BMI < 250.82430.8999
 25 ≤ BMI < 300.86140.9320
 BMI ≥ 300.90080.9700
AHR+ patients
 BMI < 250.79880.8332
 25 ≤ BMI < 300.85900.9030
 BMI ≥ 300.82200.9284
AHR− patients
 BMI < 250.66980.6778
 25 ≤ BMI < 300.68620.8032
 BMI ≥ 300.77240.8728

Data shown are the adjusted calculated by the linear regression log(FEV1 DRS) = log(FVC DRS) and the Spearman correlation coefficient between the two variables log(FEV1 DRS) and log(FVC DRS), for the three levels of BMI and for our three populations (AHR+ patients, AHR− patients, and total population).