Table 4. Comparison of cytokine levels among asthmatic patients at the acute stage, asthmatic patients at the remission stage and healthy controls.

Cytokines	Healthy control	Asthmatic patients
Th1-related cytokine
IL-2 (ng/l)	254.8 ± 54.16	181.20 ± 57.94*
IFN-γ (ng/l)	67.29 ± 8.87	46.21 ± 17.36*
Th2-related cytokine
IL-4 (ng/l)	56.81 ± 16.48	111.56 ± 48.73*
IL-10 (ng/l)	29.31 ± 7.62	60.55 ± 26.80*
Th1/Th2	3.47 ± 0.81	1.48 ± 0.66*
T-bet	1.00 ± 0.04	0.37 ± 0.09*
GATA3	1.00 ± 0.05	1.90 ± 0.22*
T-bet/GATA3	1.91 ± 0.65	0.26 ± 0.09*

^*The P-value ≤ 0.05 when compared with healthy control.