Table 1.

Baseline characteristics

Characteristic	All OLD	Silicosis	Non-silicosis OLD	Referents
Data presented as n (%) or mean ± SD
N	37	19	18	3490
Age, years	54.3 ± 6.9	53.4 ± 6.7	55.2 ± 7.3	57.2 ± 8.1
BMI*	24.6 ± 4.4	25.5 ± 4.5	23.6 ± 4.1	26.3 ± 3.8
Creatinine (mg/dl)	0.93 ± 0.21	1.00 ± 0.22	0.87 ± 0.20	0.96 ± 0.32
FEV1 % of predicted	31.9 ± 16.2	32.9 ± 15.4	30.8 ± 17.5	39.9 ± 21.3
LAS	45.4 ± 10.1	45.8 ± 12.0	45.0 ± 8.0	43.2 ± 14.0
Donor age	32.4 ± 13.0	30.4 ± 13.3	34.6 ± 12.8	33.1 ± 14.0
Donor gender, male	29 (78)	14 (74)	15 (83)	2645 (76)
Bilateral lung transplant	25 (68)	15 (79)	10 (56)	2063 (60)
Ischaemic time, hours	5.5 ± 1.6	5.5 ± 2.1	5.5 ± 0.9	5.1 ± 1.7

OLD, occupational lung disease.

*P < 0.01 by analysis of variance among the three groups: silicosis, non-silicosis OLD and referents.