Adipokines and Cysteinyl Leukotrienes in the Pathogenesis of Asthma

Table 1

Demographics of the study population of obese, nonobese, asthmatic, and nonasthmatic subjects.

	Asthma	Nonasthma
	42	40
BMI	30.3 ± 8.6	30.4 ± 7.9	= 0.5
PFR L/min	82 ± 17.6	107 ± 16.3	= 0.01
M/F	15/27	15/25
Subgroups
	Obese/nonobese	Obese/nonobese
	21/21	21/19
BMI	38.7 ± 5.4/23.0 ± 1.8	37.1 ± 3.6/23.1 ± 1.8
PFR L/min	82.5 ± 21/80.3 ± 12.2	91.5 ± 14.2/89 ± 18.9
M/F	8 : 13/7 : 14	10 : 11/5 : 14

Note: M/F: male/female; PFR: peak flow rate % normal predicted; BMI: body mass index.