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

Table 2

Baseline characteristics of 30 participants from three groups (COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ACO, asthma-COPD overlap; SD, standard deviation).

Parameter	Asthma	COPD	ACO
Total number	30	30	30
Male (female) number	10 (20)	27 (3)	24 (6)
Age (mean ± SD)	47.2 ± 15.1	71.5 ± 8.5	67.1 ± 10.0
Male	40.3 ± 19.2	70.4 ± 7.9	65.0 ± 8.4
Female	50.7 ± 11.7	81.0 ± 9.8	75.3 ± 12.4
Eosinophils (10^9/L)	0.41 ± 0.41	0.17 ± 0.20	0.20 ± 0.29
Male	0.36 ± 0.39	0.18 ± 0.21	0.19 ± 0.31
Female	0.44 ± 0.42	0.10 ± 0.00	0.24 ± 0.17
Neutrophils (10^9/L)	6.45 ± 3.37	7.21 ± 3.98	7.03 ± 3.02
Male	7.37 ± 3.20	7.01 ± 3.93	7.27 ± 3.21
Female	5.99 ± 3.44	9.03 ± 4.76	6.09 ± 2.06