From: Epithelial ciliated beating cells essential for ex vivo ALI culture growth
Overall N = 463 | Control N = 83 | Smokers N = 65 | COPD N = 130 | Mild-Mod A N = 61 | Severe A N = 124 | |
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Sex F (n, %) | 214 (47) | 49 (60) | 20 (31) | 22 (17) | 39 (66) | 84 (68) |
Age (mean ± sd) | 54.7 ± 14.4 | 50.1 ± 17.0 | 53.5 ± 14.2 | 62.4 ± 10.2 | 52.5 ± 14.6 | 51.5 ± 13.1 |
BMI | 24.3 ± 4.7 | 23.5 ± 4.6 | 24.9 ± 4.8 | 23.8 ± 4.2 | 22.4 ± 2.8 | 27.9 ± 6.3 |
FEV1 % | 78.8 ± 22.7 | 97.8 ± 12.9 | 96.4 ± 18.4 | 64.2 ± 20.5 | 89.6 ± 15.0 | 71.3 ± 19.1 |
FVC % | 94.8 ± 21.7 | 98.2 ± 19.4 | 103.5 ± 21.9 | 88.7 ± 20.8 | 112.4 ± 15.4 | 83.5 ± 14.5 |
FEV1/FVC | 64.8 ± 14.0 | 78.5 ± 9.5 | 75.6 ± 6.0 | 55.7 ± 11.1 | 69.8 ± 10.7 | 59.1 ± 13.7 |
ICS (n, %) | 172 (37) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 33 (25) | 38 (62) | 101 (81) |
OCS (n, %) | 70 (15) | 6 (7) | 4 (6) | 4 (3) | 2 (3) | 54 (44) |
SABA (n, %) | 102 (22) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 15 (12) | 15 (25) | 71 (57) |
LABA (n, %) | 165 (36) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 36 (28) | 28 (46) | 99 (80) |
LAMA (n, %) | 23 (5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 18 (24) | 1 (2) | 3 (2) |
MTP/MRS | 204/259 | 34/49 | 64/1 | 82/48 | 9/52 | 15/109 |
Biopsy Number (mean ± sd) | 1.57 ± 1.09 | 1.58 ± 1.16 | 2.88 ± 0.96 | 1.90 ± 1.28 | 1.25 ± 0.85 | 1.07 ± 0.40 |
Biopsies grown by a senior operator (n, %) | 259 (70) | 48 (77) | 32 (49) | 69 (53) | 37 (79) | 73 (85) |