TABLE 5

Relationship of airway adipose tissue with inflammation

	Control		Nonfatal asthma		Fatal asthma		All asthma
	r-value	p-value	r-value	p-value	r-value	p-value	r-value	p-value
Subjects n	12		13		13		26
*Adipose tissue area/Pbm mm versus* eosinophil area density mm²**
>6 mm	0.02	0.96	0.24	0.44	0.002	0.99	0.008	0.97
>12 mm	0.18	0.58	0.05	0.90	0.74	0.009	0.07	0.77
6–12 mm	0.63	0.18	0.36	0.30	0.27	0.46	0.62	0.80
*Adipose tissue area/Pbm mm versus* neutrophil area density mm²**
>6 mm	0.61	0.04	0.41	0.17	0.35	0.24	0.17	0.39
>12 mm	0.32	0.32	0.46	0.18	0.85	<0.001	0.33	0.14
6–12 mm	0.42	0.41	0.33	0.35	0.06	0.87	0.11	0.66
*BMI versus* eosinophil area density mm²**
>6 mm	0.09	0.79	0.09	0.76	0.11	0.72	0.23	0.26
>12 mm	0.003	0.99	0.54	0.11	0.16	0.61	0.15	0.51
6–12 mm	0.15	0.77	0.39	0.26	0.11	0.77	0.37	0.11
*BMI versus* neutrophil area density mm²**
>6 mm	0.22	0.49	0.10	0.74	0.19	0.54	0.16	0.43
>12 mm	0.27	0.40	0.12	0.75	0.10	0.75	0.12	0.61
6–12 mm	0.50	0.31	0.39	0.26	0.31	0.39	0.31	0.18

Pbm: basement membrane perimeter; BMI: body mass index.