Serum Soluble ST2 Correlated with Symptom Severity and Clinical Response of Sublingual Immunotherapy for House Dust Mite-Induced Allergic Rhinitis Patients

Table 2

The demographic and clinical variables between two groups.

Variables	Effective group ()	Ineffective group ()	value
Age (year)			0.610
Sex, male (%)	22 (55.0)	18 (47.4)	0.651
Disease duration (year)			0.268
BMI (kg/m^2)			0.247
Total IgE (IU/ml)			0.211
HDM specific IgE (kU/l)			0.003
Blood eosinophil (n/μl)			0.092
TNSS			0.389
VAS			0.193

BMI: body mass index; HDM: house dust mite; TNSS: total nasal symptom score; VAS: visual analogue scale.