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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Respir J. 2023 Apr 1;61(4):2102861. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02861-2021

Table 2:

Changes in clinical outcomes

Baseline 3-mos 6-mos 9-mos 12-mos P value
Sweat chloride (ALL) (mmol/L) 99.0 ±18.5 48.7 ±19.2 --- --- --- <0.0001
Sweat chloride (no prior modulator) (mmol/L) 103.0 ±18.8 54.0 ±20.7 --- --- --- <0.0001
Sweat chloride (prior modulator) (mmol/L) 94.9 ±17.6 43.3 ±16.2 --- --- --- <0.0001
FEV1 (ALL) 63.8 ±24.7 73.0 ±25.8 78.7 ±22.8 75.3 ±25.4 74.7 ±25.6 0.003
FEV1 (no prior modulator) 57.4 ±26.9 67.9 ±28.6 71.3 ±28.1 71.1 ±27.9 68.7 ±27.9 0.03
FEV1 (prior modulator) 70.3 ±22.9 79.4 ±22.3 87.8 ±12.3 77.7 ±24.5 81.0 ±21.6 0.001
BMI (ALL) 22.6 ± 4.5 23.5 ± 4.3 23.6 ± 4.1 23.3 ± 3.4 23.7 ± 4.1 <0.0001
BMI (no prior modulator) 21.4 ±4.9 22.7 ±5.0 22.8 ±5.8 22.4 ±4.3 22.9 ±4.1 0.003
BMI (prior modulator) 23.3 ±3.3 24.1 ±3.2 24.4 ±2.9 23.8 ±2.6 24.2 ±3.2 0.003
Hospitalizations (All) 0.9 ± 1.4 --- --- --- 0.02 ± 0.1 <0.0001
Hospitalizations (no prior modulator) 1.0 ± 1.1 --- --- --- 0.04 ± 0.2 <0.0001
Hospitalizations (prior modulator) 0.7 ± 1.7 --- --- --- 0.0 ± 0.0 <0.0001
Antibiotic courses (All) 2.4 ± 2.3 --- --- --- 0.5 ± 0.7 <0.0001
Antibiotics (no prior modulator) 3.1 ± 2.1 --- --- --- 0.6 ± 0.8 <0.0001
Antibiotics (prior modulator) 1.8 ± 2.4 --- --- --- 0.3 ± 0.5 <0.0001
P. aeruginosa 45.1% --- --- --- 21.6%
MRSA 33.3% --- --- --- 15.7%
MSSA 35.3% --- --- --- 31.4%
BCC 3.9% --- --- --- 0%
Achromobacter 9.8% --- --- --- 2%
Stenotrophomonas 5.9% --- --- --- 4%
Normal resp flora 3.9% --- --- --- 29.4%

BCC- Burkholderia cepacia complex

P values determined by paired t-test for sweat chloride, hospitalizations and antibiotic courses and linear mixed effects model with post-hoc Sidak comparison for FEV1 and BMI