CD163 and asthma: Finally, it concluded the higher existence of subphenotypes of macrophages in obese asthma patients at the molecular level.49 Earlier sCD163 have been positively associated with body mass index (BMI) and type 2 diabetes as well.50 A refined study in this context is conducted by Lessard et al which concluded obese asthma patients as different phenotypes, showing poorer asthma control in response to methacholine challenge, when compared with non‐obese asthma patients.