Table 1. Patient characteristics of PBMC donors for experiments comparing the effects of asthma drugs on innate immunity to RV16.

Variable	Asthmatic donors	Healthy donors
Number	12	12
Female	12	11
Age (median and IQ range)	30.00 (28.33–40.91) *	43.46 (33.54–50.81)
Body mass index (median and IQ range)	25.25 (21.50–27.08)	23.65 (21.01–30.53)
Sum skin prick diameters for 10 common aeroallergens (median and IQ range)	16.5 (10.25–37.1)**	0 (0–0)

*Difference between asthmatic and healthy donors by Mann Whitney U test (p = 0.0106).

**Difference between asthmatic and healthy donors by Mann Whitney U test (p<0.0001). The most frequently recognised allergens were house dust mite (n = 12), grass pollen (n = 6) cat dander (n = 6) and Alternaria (n = 4).