posted on 2013-02-20, 18:40authored bySuzy A. A. Comhair, Benjamin M. Gaston, Kristin S. Ricci, Jeffrey Hammel, Raed A. Dweik, W. Gerald Teague, Deborah Meyers, Elizabeth J. Ampleford, Eugene R. Bleecker, William W. Busse, William J. Calhoun, Mario Castro, Kian Fan Chung, Douglas Curran-Everett, Elliot Israel, W. Nizar Jarjour, Wendy Moore, Stephen P. Peters, Sally Wenzel, Stanley L. Hazen, Serpil C. Erzurum
Values are means (SE). High dose corticosteroid defined as >twice a week inhaled corticosteroids and/or weekly systemic corticosteroids. All severe asthmatics were on high dose corticosteroids by definition of severity. For non-severe asthmatics, means (SE) shown relative to dose of corticosteroid for those values that are different by corticosteroid dose (p<0.05).