Body Height of Children with Bronchial Asthma of Various Severities

Table 2

Distribution of patients from BA various weight using the WHO -score system (absolute number/fraction in %). Cross-tabulation demonstrates dependency between -score and asthma severity (, ).

Degree of bronchial asthma severity:	Lower than −2	From −2 to −1	From −1 to 1	From 1 to 2	From 2 to 3	Higher than 3	Total
Total with BA	17/1.6	89/8.5	662/63.5	211/20.3	56/5.3	7/0.7	1042/100
Intermittent	0/0	6/4.2	84/58.3	38/26.4	14/9.7	2/1.4	144/100
Mild persistent	9/1.7	38/7.3	339/65.2	105/20.2	26/5.0	3/0.6	520/100
Moderate persistent	7/2.3	29/9.4	198/64.3	56/18.2	16/5.2	2/0.7	308/100
Severe persistent	1/1.4	16/22.9	41/58.6	12/17.1	0/0	0/0	70/100
Healthy control group	9/1.0	63/7.2	573/65.5	180/20.6	42/4.8	8/0.9	875/100