Fig. 4.

Comparison of fibrocyte counts in the whole blood of healthy individuals and asthmatic patients. The graph shows individual values and the median value (horizontal line) for each group. Closed symbols represent atopic individuals. The dotted line indicates the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval (CI) in healthy subjects. The mean numbers of fibrocytes/μl blood, standard deviations and 95% CIs were 9.41, 5.92, 5.99–12.8 in healthy subjects; 14.05, 8.28, 10.06–18.04 in patients with controlled asthma; 30.42, 8.84, 23.62–37.21 in patients with transiently uncontrolled asthma; and 22.46, 9.65, 17.31–27.60 in patients with treatment-resistant asthma.