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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Asthma. 2017 Jul 31;55(5):525–531. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2017.1341522

Table 2.

Effect of nasal steroid treatment on symptom scores in different BMI groups

BMI group Placebo Nasal Mometasone P value
Change from V2 to V5* Change from V2 to V5*
FEV1 (% predicted)
 < 25 0.82 (−1.22, 2.86) 1.69 (−1.04, 4.41) 0.61
 25–29.9 1.68 (−2.71, 6.08) −3.18 (−7.57, 1.22) 0.12
 > 30 −0.06 (−3.43, 3.30) −1.99 (−5.11, 1.12) 0.41
FVC (% predicted)
 < 25 −0.14 (−1.66, 1.39) 2.64 (−0.61, 4.68) 0.03
 25–29.9 1.90 (−1.92, 5.72) −2.61 (−6.43, 1.21) 0.10
 > 30 −0.79 (−3.81, 2.24) −2.10 (−4.90, 0.69) 0.53
ASUI (↑)
 < 25 0.09 (0.03, 0.14) 0.14 (0.07, 0.21) 0.21
 25–29.9 0.04 (−0.02, 0.11) 0.10 (0.03, 0.16) 0.25
 > 30 −0.008 (−0.06, 0.04) 0.07 (0.03, 0.12) 0.02
ACT (↑)
 < 25 3.34 (2.07, 4.61) 2.93 (1.37, 4.49) 0.68
 25–29.9 2.38 (0.83, 3.92) 3.96 (2.41, 5.51) 0.15
 > 30 1.98 (0.76, 3.19) 2.14 (1.00, 3.27) 0.85
SNOT22 (↓)
 < 25 −4.93 (−10.12, 0.27) −13.10 (−19.57, −6.63) 0.053
 25–29.9 −8.12 (−15.19, −1.05) −13.90 (−21.18, −6.62) 0.26
 > 30 −6.25 (−12.37, −0.14) −10.08 (−15.69, −4.47) 0.36

Numbers shown are mean and SD

↑ higher score indicative of better control, ↓ lower score indicative of better control

V2 is baseline visit, V5 is end of study visit.