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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 23.
Published in final edited form as: Lung. 2008 Oct 9;186(6):361–368. doi: 10.1007/s00408-008-9119-1

Table 2.

Lung Function and Asthma Symptom Scores

normal asthma only asthma-rhinitis p1
n 12 8 12
FEV1 pre bronchodilator %
predicted		 90.6(9.7) 64.1(40.8) 80.4(12.2) 0.08
FEV1 post bronchodilator %
predicted		 100(16) 78.1(29) 89.3(7.3) < 0.05
FVC pre-bronchodilator %
predicted		 87.3(9.8) 86.2(29.1) 92.4(13.3) 0.55
FEV1/FVC pre bronchodilator 81.5(12.1) 60.6(22.8) 74.8(7.8) 0.01
PEFR (% predicted) 123(30) 96.8(50) 110(24) 0.21
ACQ2 0 2.3(1.3) 2.1(0.4) 0.3
1

values reported for median and interquartile range, Kruskal Wallis for non-normally distributed values. For PC20 and ACQ, p value is reported for comparison between two asthmatic groups.

2

ACQ = Juniper Asthma Control Questionnaire[5]