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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2016 Sep 22;127(4):882–887. doi: 10.1002/lary.26223

Table 2.

Participant and Sample Characteristics

Smokers
Nonsmokers
GERD LPR Normal GERD LPR Normal


N 5 2 2 6 15 12
Women, % 60 100 100 50 67 67
Age, y (range) 46 (25–61) 34 (26–37) 44 (48–60) 47 (21–65) 36 (21–60) 45 (23–59)
Treg, % 1.29 (−0.08–2.66) 1.07 (−1.42–3.57) 1.09 (−5.45–7.63) 1.75 (0.64–2.86) 1.62 (0.97–2.26) 1.63 (0.81–2.45)
T cell, % 11.81 (7.79–15.84) 13.43 (−90.05–116.91) 17.15 (−157.35–191.66) 21.93 (13.85–30) 26.33 (19.83–32.82) 23.65 (16.81–30.49)
ImmunoCRIT, % 13.19 (−2.25–28.64) 14.05 (−112.79–140.88) 11.06 (−63.35–85.47) 8.70 (3.61–13.79) 6.11 (4.63–7.59) 6.65 (4.04–9.26)

Treg and T cell are mean values. ImmunoCRIT is the mean of all Treg/T cell ratios across a cohort. 95% confidence intervals are noted in parentheses.