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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Jan;123(1):146–152.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.10.047

TABLE E5.

Correlation coefficients (r) for biomarkers of airway oxidant stress*

GSH:GSSG Eh % GSSG H2O2 8-Isoprostanes Malondialdehyde
GSH:GSSG Eh 1 0.854 0.299 0.315 0.509
P < .001 P = .049 P = .027 P = .031
% GSSG 1 0.351 0.485 0.343
P < .020 P = .005 P = .024
H2O2 1 0.338 0.343
P = .050 P = .049
8-Isoprostanes 1 0.698
P < .001
MDA 1
*

Data are from the combined sample of subjects with severe asthma with and without airway obstruction. Adult and pediatric controls were excluded from this analysis.

Coefficients for H2O2, 8-isoprostanes, and malondialdehyde were obtained after logarithmic transformation.