Please provide data as proportion of patients (Brian Alper, 23 January 2005)

I manage an evidence-based medical reference and update information when clinically relevant articles are published that represent the best available evidence for a concept.Your article appears to be clinically relevant, and clinicians caring for children with sickle cell disease should be aware of these findings. However, some additional information would be more useful to put this in perspective.Table 2 currently compares the total number of events among the 48 children with asthma and 48 children without asthma. Significant differences were found for the numbers of acute chest syndrome episodes, strokes and blood transfusions.Results were reported only as numbers of events and not numbers of patients with events, so it is possible that 1 or 2 patients with asthma had a large number of... read full comment

Comment on: Nordness et al. Clinical and Molecular Allergy, 3:2