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Published in final edited form as: Thorax. 2020 Dec 10;76(2):134–143. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214301

Table 3:

Clinical Phenotypes and Module 31 Sample Clustering

Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 p-value
ANOVA 1_vs_2 1_vs_3 2_vs_3
Prevalence, n 7 27 48
Age, yr, mean ± sd 51.89 ± 7.50 48.43 ± 9.97 57.03 ± 10.40 0.0026 0.3316 0.1408 0.0008
Female sex, n (%) 5 (71) 16 (59) 32 (67) 0.7747 0.6818 1.0000 0.6182
Ever Smoker, n (%) 2 (29) 13 (48) 18 (38) 0.5799 0.4263 1 0.4651
Genotype PiZZ off, n (%) 3 (60) 6 (25) 18 (51) 0.0851 0.2872 1.0000 0.0599
PiMZ, n (%) 2 (40) 18 (75) 17 (49)
Therapy PiZZ on, n (%) 2 (40) 3 (33) 13 (42) 0.8964 1.0000 1.0000 0.7171
PiZZ off, n (%) 3 (60) 6 (67) 18 (58)
FVC (liters), mean ± sd 3.62 ± 1.23 4.06 ± 0.98 3.48 ± 1.79 0.2920 0.4052 0.7969 0.0742
FVC % predicted, mean ± sd 89.71 ± 17.49 95.15 ± 13.29 94.50 ± 21.53 0.7903 0.4656 0.5289 0.8725
FEV1 (liters) mean ± sd 2.37 ± 1.10 3.21 ± 0.89 2.55 ± 1.11 0.0236 0.0997 0.6982 0.0068
FEV1% predicted , mean ± sd 71.86 ± 28.70 91.30 ± 16.16 83.69 ± 24.59 0.1048 0.1285 0.3328 0.1113
DLCO, mean ± sd 19.60 ± 4.23 27.06 ± 7.41 22.11 ± 9.62 0.0308 0.0029 0.2520 0.0154
DLCO % predicted, mean ± sd 74.71 ± 11.57 87.81 ± 17.41 79.71 ± 25.65 0.2223 0.0322 0.3959 0.1089
Emphysema presence, n (%) 4 (57) 2 (7) 22 (48) 0.0003 0.0096 0.7040 0.0003
PD15, mean ± sd −939.00 ± 24.39 −915.89 ± 20.21 −932.11 ± 19.69 0.0020 0.0487 0.4982 0.0015
Bronchiectasis, n (%) 7 (100) 27 (100) 44 (96) 0.4896 0.1801 0.7083 0.4786
Airway Internal Perimeter, mean ± sd 1.07 ± 0.20 1.16 ± 0.36 1.14 ± 0.26 0.7423 0.3639 0.4230 0.7589
Airway Wall Area, mean ± sd 41.40 ± 1.27 41.99 ± 3.99 40.35 ± 3.58 0.1723 0.5201 0.1551 0.0854
Alveolar Macrophage %, mean ± sd 90.64 ± 5.10 85.20 ± 31.02 75.61 ± 28.33 0.2214 0.3927 0.0017 0.1911
BAL Eosinophil %, mean ± sd 0.21 ± 0.57 0.22 ± 1.22 0.51 ± 2.61 0.8335 0.9803 0.4985 0.5187
BAL Lymphocyte %, mean ± sd 7.79 ± 5.60 2.41 ± 2.43 9.72 ± 8.13 8.20E-05 0.0441 0.4425 2.70E-07
BAL Neutrophil %, mean ± sd 1.07 ± 1.17 0.59 ± 0.86 1.44 ± 2.65 0.2607 0.3409 0.5395 0.0467