Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of 1341 patients with acute admission to hospital and a diagnosis of asthma

	N (%) or median (IQR)
N	1341
Men	457 (34.1%)
Age (years)	45.3 (30.1–63.1)
Charlson comorbidity score	1.0 (1.0–1.0)
Length of hospital stay (days)	0.55 (0.27–2.21)
C-Reactive Protein (mg/L) (n = 1272)	6.0 (2.0–23.0)
Blood eosinophil count (cells/μL) (n = 1268)	180 (60–400)
suPAR (ng/L)	2.6 (1.9–3.5)

IQR – Interquartile Range

suPAR – Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor