Wound healing
Wound healing rates in the mutually exclusive groups are shown in Figure
1. The healthy subjects healed fastest, with a mean rate of 4.3± (SD)
1.9 %/hour. The slowest rate was seen in atopic adults (2.9±1.8
%/hour) (p=0.02 compared to healthy subjects), with rates of the atopic
asthmatics (3.8±1.0 %/hour) and non-atopic asthmatics (4.1±1.1 %/hour)
falling in-between, but not statistically different from the healthy
subjects.