Fig. 3
From: Cluster analysis of sputum cytokine-high profiles reveals diversity in T(h)2-high asthma patients
Decision tree with patient clusters of all asthmatics. Patients with an “IL-17 F-high and IL5-high” profile, irrespective of expression of other cytokines, were labelled as cluster 1 (n = 24). Patients with an “IL-5-high or IL-10-high” but not an “IL-17 F-high” profile, were identified as cluster 2 (n = 16). In the next step, patients who had normal levels of the previous cytokines but were “IL-22-high”, were assigned to cluster 3 (n = 25). Patients with an “IL-6-high profile” were labelled as cluster 4 (n = 8). All other patients were grouped in cluster 5 (n = 132). *: This group consists of patients with normal levels of the previous cytokines with or without an “IL-1β- or TNF-low” profile (n = 49 and n = 83, respectively)