. 2020 Jun 12;8(11):e14451. doi: 10.14814/phy2.14451

TABLE 1.

Subject characteristics from (Donovan et al., 2018; Tough et al., 1996)

	Nonfatal asthma (n = 32)	Fatal asthma (n = 25)
Age, years, mean ± SD	35 ± 11	33 ± 14
Gender, male/female	16/16	15/10
Inhaled/oral corticosteroid use, number (%) ^a	9 (53)	12 (92) ^†
Ever smoked, number (%) ^a	11 (52)	9 (64)
Perimeter of the basement membrane, mm, mean ± SD (range)	11.3 ± 1.6 (1.7–30.8)	11.8 ± 1.6 (1.8–32.5)
Body mass index, mean ± SD (range) ^a	32 ± 8 (16–45)	26 ± 6 (15–41)*
Age at onset of asthma, years, median (IQR) ^a	17 (10–26)	9 (3–39)
Duration of asthma, years, median (IQR) ^a	17 (9–21)	17 (7–22)
Asthma severity, “Severe”, number (%) ^a	8 (38)	9 (64)

^{^a}

Incomplete data set.

p < .05 versus Nonfatal asthma.

^{^†}

p = .04