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Table 5.

Meta-Analysis of Immune Responses to Brief Naturalistic Stress in Participants With Asthma

Immune marker	k	N	r	SE_r	95% CI	p	Q
Neutrophil function
Superoxide release with FMLP	3	216	.20	.07	.06, .32	.004	0.39
Superoxide release with PHA	3	216	.37	.07	.24, .49	.001	0.68
Natural killer cell function
Natural killer cell cytotoxicity	3	216	−.33	.07	−.45, −.21	.001	0.50
Lymphocyte proliferation
Proliferation to PHA	3	216	.32	.07	.19, .43	.001	0.35

Note. CI = confidence interval; FMLP = N-formyl-met-leu-phe; PHA = phytohemagglutinin.