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Table 3 Univariable clinical predictors of BALL ≥ 30% in patients with fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (N = 88)

From: Bronchoalveolar lavage lymphocytosis in hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a retrospective cohort analysis with elimination of incorporation bias

Characteristic

OR (95% CI)

P value

Age*

0.98 (0.94–1.02)

0.392

Male sex

0.74 (0.29–1.91)

0.542

Ever smoker

0.52 (0.18–1.49)

0.210

TLC%*

1.01 (0.97–1.05)

0.467

FVC%*

1.00 (0.98–1.03)

0.763

DLCO%*

1.01 (0.97–1.04)

0.524

Any positive HP serology, (excluding untested, N = 12)

1.01 (0.36–2.83)

0.978

Any identifiable exposure history (excluding those with unknown exposures, N = 38)

1.38 (0.52–3.61)

0.508

Avian

1.58 (0.47–5.65)

0.457

Mold/bacterial

0.96 (0.25–3.38)

0.948

GGO

0.76 (0.26–2.45)

0.638

Mosaic attenuation

1.04 (0.39–2.93)

0.927

Centrilobular nodules

4.07 (1.28–12.93)

0.018

Honeycombing

6.9 × e−8 (0–1.07e−19)

0.001

  1. *Unit risk ratios