Table 1.

Subject Medical and Demographic Data

Subject	Sex	Age	Body Mass Index	Ethnicity	Cause of Death	Asthma History	Other	Medication(s)	Medication in Hospital
Subjects with asthma
1	M	72	44.2	W	CVA secondary to ICH	Age of diagnosis unknown	Smoking 16 pack-years, quit 50 YA	Unknown	Unknown
2	F	34	31.93	W	Anoxia secondary to drug intoxication	Diagnosed 20 YA, hospitalized twice with exacerbations		Inhaler–prednisone	Solu-Medrol, Levophed
3	M	29	30.8	W	Anoxia secondary to cardiovascular	Diagnosed 7 YA	Chewing tobacco for 1 yr	Albuterol inhaler	Esmolol, Levophed
4	F	60	25.59	W	HT secondary to blunt injury	Diagnosed 10 YA	Complete hysterectomy 40 YA, hypertension	Infrequent inhaler use, hypertension medication	Levophed, Solu-Medrol, phentolamine
5	M	38	29.49	W	CVA secondary to ICH	Diagnosed at 4 mo		Allergy medications	Norepinephrine, Levophed, phenylephrine, dobutamine
6	M	35	29.4	W	Anoxia (asthma) secondary to cardiovascular	Asthma since childhood		Albuterol, Pulmicort	Levophed, Solu-Medrol, albuterol
7	M	40	26.95	A	Anoxia secondary to cardiovascular	Asthma diagnosed 5 YA		Dulera	Levophed, Solu-Medrol
8	F	38	35.78	W	Anoxia secondary to cardiovascular	Asthma diagnosed at 8		Singulair	Levophed, epinephrine, dopamine
Control subjects
9	M	22	23	W	HT secondary to SIGSW	Asthma as child, not taken medication in 7 yr	Smoked hookah past year	Albuterol as child and Pepcid	Levophed, Neo-Synephrine, Atrovent, albuterol, Solu-Medrol
10	F	61	35.1	H	CVA secondary to ICH		Tobacco product 20 YA, diabetes, hypertension		Levophed, albuterol-ipratropium
11	M	47	26.2	W	CVA secondary to ICH				Neosynephrine
12	F	55	26	W	CVA secondary to ICH		Alcohol abuse, marijuana and cocaine use		Neosynephrine, dopamine, Levophed, Solu-Medrol, dobutamine
13	F	35	21.87	W	Anoxia secondary to ICH		Teenage marijuana use		Levophed
14	M	30	21.85	W	Anoxia secondary to asphyxiation		Marijuana, cocaine use		Solu-Medrol
15	F	54	36.13	W	CVA secondary to ICH		Smoking 10 pack-years, quit 8 YA		Epinephrine
16	F	62	30.86	W	CVA secondary to natural causes		Hypertension, basal cell carcinoma in nose 3 YA		Dopamine
17	M	55	26.79	W	HT secondary to blunt injury		Marijuana occasionally, alcohol abuse		Neosynephrine, Solu-Medrol
18	F	58	33.87	W	CVA secondary to ICH				Neosynephrine, Solu-Medrol
19	F	54	24.97	W	HT secondary to blunt injury		Smoking 30 pack-years, quit 16 YA, hypertension		Levophed, albuterol

Definition of abbreviations: A = African American; CVA = cerebrovascular accident; H = Hispanic; HT = head trauma; ICH = intracerebral hemorrhage; SIGSW = self-inflicted gunshot wound; W = white; YA = years ago.