. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 14.

Published in final edited form as: Lab Invest. 2010 Apr 19;90(6):812–823. doi: 10.1038/labinvest.2010.73

Table 1.

Characteristics of Subjects

Characteristic	Control (n=27)	SSc-ILD (n=12)	p-value
Age, years	51.71±-3.91	47.42±-3.13	0.49
Race – white	21/27	10/12	0.39
Sex – female	16/27	9/12	0.79
Hypertension	8/27	4/12	0.42
GERD	3/27	12/12	0.03
Hyperlipidemia	4/27	3/12	0.78
FVC, percent predicted	NA	64.58+/-3.44	NA
DLCO, percent predicted	NA	49.67+/-16.96	NA

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM.