TABLE 2.

Demographic characteristics of asthma patients and HCs.

	Control	Asthma
Number of subjects	51	55
Age	53.83 ± 6.84	46.72 ± 10.41
Gender (f/m)	41/10	46/9
FEV1	2.82 ± 0.20	1.76 ± 0.62 *
FEV1% predicted	0.92 ± 0.25	0.70 ± 0.24 *
FVC	4.02 ± 0.65	2.84 ± 0.85 *
FEV1/FVC	0.83 ± 0.03	0.65 ± 0.16 *
PEF	8.34 ± 0.92	4.65 ± 0.85 *
FEF75	0.86 ± 0.35	0.47 ± 0.22 *
FEF50	0.83 ± 0.34	0.37 ± 0.16 *
FEF25	0.72 ± 0.22	0.23 ± 0.18 *

Data are presented as mean ± SD.

^*p-value < 0.05, asthma patients vs controls (unpaired t test).