Table 1.
Patient baseline characteristics
| Asthma (n = 142) |
COPD (n = 95) |
Total (n = 237) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 51.0 (16.1) | 65.5 (10.2) | 56.9 (15.7) |
| Height (cm), mean (SD) | 165 (13.0) | 164 (8.2) | 165 (11.3) |
| Weight (kg), mean (SD) | 76.6 (20.9) | 72.9 (18.1) | 75.1 (19.8) |
| Sex (female), n (%) | 111 (78.2) | 54 (56.8) | 165 (69.6) |
| Education, n (%) | |||
| Primary school | 36 (25.4) | 53 (55.8) | 89 (37.6) |
| Secondary school | 82 (57.7) | 35 (36.8) | 117 (49.4) |
| University or college degree | 24 (16.9) | 7 (7.4) | 31 (13.1) |
| Smoking status, n (%) | |||
| Current smoker | 14 (9.9) | 45 (47.4) | 59 (24.9) |
| Previous smoker | 13 (9.2) | 34 (35.8) | 47 (19.8) |
| Never smoked | 115 (81.0) | 16 (16.8) | 131 (55.3) |
| FEV1% predicted, mean (SD) | 76.7 (17.3) | 51.3 (18.1) | 66.5 (21.6) |