Body Height of Children with Bronchial Asthma of Various Severities

Table 5

Relative index (RI) of body height in the BA patients of different age and sex in comparison with healthy children.

Age	Gender	Healthy	BA patients	Statistics
5-6	Boys			KW test = 0.9,
	Girls			KW test = 0.0005,
	Total			KW test = 0.7,
7–9	Boys			KW test = 1.1,
	Girls			KW test = 1.31,
	Total			KW test = 0.003,
10–12	Boys			KW test = 3.46,
	Girls			KW test = 3.3,
	Total			KW test = 5.4,
13-14	Boys			KW test = 0.5,
	Girls			KW test = 1.1,
	Total			KW test = 0.05,
15–17	Boys			KW test = 1.1,
	Girls			KW test = 0.7,
	Total			KW test = 2.3,