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Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette

Table 6 Airway inflammatory biomarkers characteristics of the different clinical asthma phenotype

From: Prevalence of bronchial asthma and correlation between the chemokine receptor 3 gene polymorphism and clinical asthma phenotypes among Egyptian asthmatic children

Variables

Cough (n = 20)

Cough with allergic rhinitis (n = 20)

Cough and wheeze (n = 20)

Significance testx2

p value

Eosinophilic percentage (%)

 Median (minimum–maximum)

2.8(0.1–13.2)

4.0(0.5–46.4)

5.1(0.6–16.5)

χ2 = 3.8

0.1

Total IgE (IU/ml)

 Median (minimum–maximum)

61.9(0–1013.0)

54.5(0–537.9)

28.7(0.0–1143)

χ2 = 0.01

0.9

  1. Test of significance: Kruskal–Wallis test. r reference group
  2. *Statistical significance was defined as P < 0.05
  3. The above table showed that no significant difference as regards inflammatory biomarkers (eosinophilic percent and total IgE) between different clinical asthma phenotypes
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