Blood Eosinophil Endotypes across Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of participants (COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ACO: asthma-COPD overlap; SD: standard deviation).

Parameter	Asthma	COPD	ACO
Total number	9787	15806	831
Male (female) number	4300 (5487)	14247 (1559)	617 (214)
Age (mean ± SD)	42.7 ± 20.6	70.8 ± 9.8	67.9 ± 10.8
Male	39.1 ± 21.4	70.4 ± 9.5	66.3 ± 9.9
Female	45.5 ± 19.5	74.1 ± 11.4	72.8 ± 12.0
Eosinophils (10^9/L)	0.356 ± 0.525	0.165 ± 0.294	0.164 ± 0.370
Male	0.406 ± 0.588	0.167 ± 0.300	0.168 ± 0.314
Female	0.317 ± 0.465	0.147 ± 0.239	0.150 ± 0.498
Neutrophils (10^9/L)	5.181 ± 2.893	7.568 ± 4.803	7.641 ± 4.017
Male	5.244 ± 2.974	7.650 ± 4.845	7.793 ± 4.068
Female	5.131 ± 2.828	6.817 ± 4.331	7.202 ± 3.840