To a significant degree (p<0.05), hypersecretors compared to non-hypersecretors were older, had severer asthma, experienced greater bronchial obstruction, had poorer asthma control (ACT <20), had received more short-term oral glucocorticoid treatments in the previous year, had lower peripheral blood albumin levels, induced sputum lymphocyte levels and IgE levels, and were less likely to have prick test-positive asthma. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and asthma.