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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Med. 2015 Jun 24;109(8):1058–1062. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2015.06.012

Table A2.

Association with inter-test difference in FVC over 6 month for pre and post-bronchodilator measurements

Inter-test difference in FVC pre-BD Inter-test difference in FVC post-BD
Predictors Coefficient 95% CI p-value Coefficient 95% CI p-value
Age 0 −0.004 to 0.004 0.9 −0.001 −0.004 to 0.003 0.71
Male gender −0.072 −0.145 to 0.002 0.05 −0.066 −0.134 to 0.001 0.05
Smoking −0.015 −0.088 to 0.058 0.68 −0.006 −0.074 to 0.061 0.85
Asthma 0.045 −0.099 to 0.189 0.54 0.061 −0.071 to 0.197 0.38
COPD −0.074 −0.171 to 0.023 0.13 −0.027 −0.117 to 0.062 0.55
Bronchodilator 0.018 −0.056 to 0.092 0.63 −0.002 −0.071 to 0.067 0.95
ICS −0.05 −0.144 to 0.044 0.30 −0.037 −0.124 to 0.051 0.41
LTOT 0.073 0.005 to 0.14 0.03 0.072 0.01 to 0.134 0.02
Cough −0.13 −0.216 to −0.043 <0.001 −0.126 −0.206 to −0.045 <0.001
Crackles 0.063 −0.154 to 0.281 0.56 0.134 −0.075 to 0.345 0.21
Wheezing 0.155 −0.024 to 0.334 0.09 0.167 −0.001 to 0.335 0.05