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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Med. 2015 Jan 31;109(3):397–405. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2015.01.011

Table 1.

Types and distribution of interstitial lung disease and connective tissue disease

Characteristics ILD
(n=1256)
No ILD
(n=2317)
UIP
551 (44%)
NSIP
74 (6%)
OP
70 (6%)
LIP
4 (<1%)
PF-NOS
557 (44%)
CTD (n=450) 29 (9%) 35 (11%) 19 (6%) 2 (<1%) 241 (74%) 124 (5%)
  RA 8 (28%) 6 (17%) 3 (16%) 0 (0%) 64 (27%) 62 (50%)
  PM/DM 4 (14%) 7 (20%) 5 (26%) 0 (0%) 27 (11%) 6 (5%)
  SSc 3 (10%) 6 (17%) 2 (11%) 0 (0%) 59 (24%) 13 (10%)
  SLE 0 (0%) 2 (6%) 0 (0%) 1 (50%) 13 (5%) 6 (5%)
  MCTD 7 (24%) 7 (20%) 2 (11%) 1 (50%) 48 (20%) 14 (11%)
  Sjögren 2 (7%) 3 (9%) 1 (5%) 0 (0%) 9 (4%) 11 (9%)
  UCTD 5 (17%) 4 (11%) 6 (31%) 0 (0%) 21 (9%) 12 (10%)
No CTD (n=3123) 522 (56%) 39 (4%) 51 (6%) 2 (<1%) 316 (34%) 2193 (95%)

ILD, interstitial lung disease; CTD, connective tissue disease; UIP, usual interstitial pneumonia; NSIP, nonspecific interstitial pneumonia; OP, organizing pneumonia; LIP, lymphoid interstitial pneumonia; PF-NOS, pulmonary fibrosis non-otherwise specified or unclassifiable; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; PM/DM, poly-/dermatomyositis; SSc, systemic sclerosis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; MCTD, mixed connective tissue disease; UCTD, undifferentiated connective tissue disease