Nasal Discharge Eosinophils in Childhood Asthma Patients as a Predictive Factor for Persistent Asthma

Table 3

Match correlations between nasal eosinophils and other predictive features.

	RAST		Family		Other	Allergy
	Number of patients		Number of patients		Number of patients
	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive
A group
Nasal eosinophil (+)	11	23	18	16	20	14
Nasal eosinophil (−)	36	15	36	15	42	9
NA group
Nasal eosinophil (+)	27	2	23	6	24	5
Nasal eosinophil (−)	62	4	54	12	60	6

A, asthma group; NA, nonasthma group; family, atopic family history; other, other allergic diseases. , , chi-square test.