Evaluation of Some Physiological Parameters in Patients with Asthma

The present study was performed to estimate some physiological parameters in patients with asthma, as well as the correlation between this disease and sex in three age groups. This work was applied on 59 asthmatic patients (23 male and 36 female) and 30 apparently healthy subjects (14 male and 16 female) as control group. The study reveals that the level of estradiol was increased significantly ( P< 0.05 ) in females compared with males, while there has been a raise in the level of estradiol of patient in the age groups (1-10), (11-20), and (31- 40) years in comparison with the with the categories (21-30) and ( > 50 ), in addition, there was higher increase in its level through the duration of the most illness than ten years, while the results of the study presented a clear difference ( P< 0.05 ) in the RBCs count of males with asthmatic compared to females. The data also displayed an obvious difference ( P< 0.05 ) in the platelets of patient males compared with healthy males, there is an increase ( P< 0.05) in the means of PCV and Hb in the age group ( > 50 ) in contrast with (1-10), (11-20) (21-30) and (31-40) groups, the results showed a significant variance in the platelets count between patients and healthy in the age group (1-10) as well as, there was a significant variance in the mean of RBCs count, PCV and Hb in the duration of illness > 10 years compared with the duration of the illness (1-5) years and (6-10) years.