Table 2.

Measurements of inflammatory markers.

	Total (n = 24)	Girls (n = 11)	Boys (n = 13)	P value
IS neutrophils (%) ∗	1.15 (0.32–13.90)	0.32 (0.32–2.11)	1.47 (0.45–19.30)	.30
IS epithelial cells ∗%)∗	47.98 (18.10–51.40)	50.96 (11.81–50.96)	45.00 (18.10–57.60)	.73
IS eosinophils (%)	0.18 (0.00–0.83)	0.00 (0.00–0.17)	0.19 (0.16–1.30)	.08
ECP∗(μg/l)†	15.60 (6.02–38.75)	6.65 (2.82–22.80)	27.90 (11.20–46.30)	.02
ECP∗IS eosinophils	0.58 (P = .08)	‡	0.86 (P = .01)

Data are presented as median (25th–75th percentile).

IS: induced sputum; ECP: eosinophilic cationic protein.

^∗IS differential cell counts were performed only in 10 participants (3 girls and 7 boys).

^†ECP levels were measured in sputum supernatant.

^‡The sample size among the girl's group (n = 3) was too low to perform the correlation coefficient.