Table 4.
Summary of reviewed exhaled nitric oxide values (ppb) for the asthma population: adults (A), children (B).
| First author | Date | n | Mean | Standard deviation |
Standard error |
Median | Interquartile range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | |||||||
| Kharitonov [51] | 2003 | 59 | 32.3 | 25.9 | |||
| Olin [61] | 2004 | 228 | 24.7 | ||||
| Smith [62] | 2004 | 47 | 52 | 34 | |||
| Berry [15] | 2005 | 566 | 6.7 | log 0.65 | |||
| Nguyen [63] | 2005 | 44 | 17 | 9.5–41.4 | |||
| Olin [74] | 2006 | 2200 | 19.9 | 14.6–31.4 | |||
| Gruffydd-Jones [67] | 2007 | 37 | 31.2 | 11.5–61.9 | |||
| Maniscalco [80] | 2007 | 14 | 32.9 | 6.4 | |||
| Shaw [71] | 2007 | 118 | 29.2 | 14.0 – 61.0 | |||
| Travers [46] | 2007 | 528 | 25 | 15.2 | |||
| Zietkowski [78] | 2007 | 26 | 98.9 | 55.37 | |||
| Kerckx [79] | 2008 | 21 | 46.5 | 22.1 | |||
| Kovesi [45] | 2008 | 657 | 20 | 14–31 | |||
| Michils [48] | 2008 | 341 | 32.9 | ||||
| Shannon [72] | 2008 | 50 | 13.3 | 8.5 | |||
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| (B) | |||||||
| Warke [59] | 2002 | 71 | 24.3 | 10.5–66.5 | |||
| Beck-Ripp [38] | 2002 | 46 | 14.8 | 1.9 | |||
| Malmberg [60] | 2003 | 96 | 22.1 | 2.6 | |||
| Pijnenburg [36] | 2005 | 40 | 11.2 | 2.05 | |||
| Pjnenburg [65] | 2005 | 85 | 26.4 | ||||
| Spergel [49] | 2005 | 30 | 44 | 49 | |||
| Zacharasiewicz [54] | 2005 | 40 | 21.5 | 8.5–33 | |||
| Fritsch [66] | 2006 | 47 | 34.6 | 17.5–58.6 | |||
| Gruffydd-Jones [67] | 2007 | 37 | 55.3 | 11.6–102.1 | |||
| Montuschi [69] | 2007 | 14 | 42.6 | 28–66.4 | |||
| Robroeks [70] | 2007 | 114 | 15.4 | 1.37 | |||