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Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Aug 1;136(4):1025–1034.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.05.046

Table EI.

Percentage of women and men meeting each of the severe asthma criteria as defined by the Severe Asthma Research Program⁽¹⁾^†

	Women (%)	Men (%)	p value^††
Major Criteria (Must have 1)
Oral corticosteroids <50% of year	35.7	20	0.362
High-dose inhaled corticosteroids	78.6	82.4	0.928
Minor Criteria (Must have 2)
Daily treatment with controller medication	100	86.7	0.082
Daily or near-daily use of short-acting β2	35.7	46.7	0.566
FEV1 <80% predicted	42.9	73.3	0.103
1+ urgent care visits for asthma per year	28.6	6.7	0.127
3+ oral corticosteroid “bursts” per year	7.1	6.7	0.961
Prompt deterioration in asthma control when corticosteroids were reduced < 25%	0	0	--
Near-fatal asthma event in the past	0	0	--

^†

Some patients may have met more than the minimum requirements

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p value was determined by Mann-Whitney U test, * p<0.05