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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Respir Med. 2014 Jun 16;2(7):557–565. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70124-9

Table 1.

Comparison of Clinical Characteristics of ILD patients

Dallas Cohorts: P-value (Dallas non-IPF vs. IPF) Chicago IPF cohort: San Francisco IPF cohort: P-value (Three IPF cohorts3)


All Non-IPF ILD (n=221) IPF cohort (n=149) IPF cohort (n=139) IPF cohort (n=54)
Age at enrollment, mean (SD), years 56 (13) 65 (10) <0·0001 68 (9) 69 (9) 0·0047
Male, n (%) 75 (34) 104 (70) <0·0001 100 (72) 43 (80) 0·39
Ethnicity, n (%)
 European American 147 (67) 126 (85) 0·00010 122 (88) 40 (75) 0·11
 African American 38 (17) 10 (7) 0·0041 10 (7) 2 (4) 0·80
 Hispanic 25 (11) 11 (7) 0·28 5 (4) 3 (6) 0·39
 Other 11 (5) 2 (1) 0·084 2 (1) 8 (15) 0·00011
Ever smokers, n (%) 83 (38) 94 (63) 0·00010 88 (70) 39 (72) 0·35
Baseline Spirometry, mean (SD)
 FVC, % predicted 67 (23) 62 (21) (n=148) 0·023 (0·00026) 64 (18) 69 (15) 0·026 (0·12)
 FEV1, % predicted 67 (23) 66 (20) (n=147) 0·74 (0·067) 77 (20) (n=137) NA <0·0001 (<0·0001)
 Ratio of FEV1/FVC 81 (12) (n=211) 82 (9) (n=148) 0·49 (0·20) 84 (8) (n=122) NA 0·066 (0·046)
 DLCO, % predicted 41 (18) (n=187) 35 (16) (n=136) 0·0035 (0·0063) 48 (18) (n=123) 46 (16) (n=49) <0·0001 (<0·0001)
Unable to perform DLCO, n (%) 15 (6·8) 8 (5·6) 0·83 1 (0·8) 1 (2·0) 0·057
Follow up time, median (IQR), months 27 (13–35) 15 (9–27) 0·00013 26 (15–49) 56 (17–72) <0·0001
Time to Death or Transplant, median (95% CI), months1 69 (69-)1 21.5 (16–28) 0·00010 67 (46- )1 64 (32- )1 <0·0001
Number of patients undergoing transplant (%) 13 (6) 38 (26) <0·0001 11 (8) 7 (13) 0·00023
Telomere Length, mean (SD) 1·46 (0·24) 1·33 (0·25) <0·0001 (adjusted 0·47)2 1·34 (0·26) 1·67 (0·37) <0·0001

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; FVC, forced vital capacity; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in one second; DLCO, diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide; IQR, interquartile range; 95% CI, 95 percent confidence interval; NA, not available.

1

The median survival time was estimated using Kaplan-Meier analysis. More than 50% of non-IPF ILD subjects were still alive at the end of the observation period, therefore the median cannot be estimated. The upper 95% confidence limits of median survival time for the San Francisco cohort and Chicago cohorts could not be determined because of the large proportion of transplant-free surviving subjects at the end of the observation period.

2

The P-values for comparison of Dallas IPF vs. non-IPF patients adjusted for age, male sex, and ethnicity.

3

The P-values for comparison of Dallas IPF, Chicago IPF and San Francisco IPF cohorts.