Table 1: Characteristics of asthma pts
| Characteristics | Asthma pts,n=19 | Non-asthma pts | p-value |
| Gender,female | 14(74%) | 101(40%) | 0,004 |
| Heart Failure | 4(21%) | 106(42%) | 0,07 |
| Neurological disease | 4(2%) | 42(17%) | 0,03 |
| D.M. | 7(37%) | 54(22%) | 0,13 |
| pre-antibiotic treatment | 10(56%) | 94(40%) | 0,19 |
| Hypoxemia | 13(72%) | 175(70%) | 0,86 |
| PAFI <250 | 9(50%) | 98(40%) | 0,38 |
| Multilobar involvement | 4(21%) | 91(36%) | 0,271 |
| Death | 2(11%) | 16(6%) | 0,002 |