Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of study population.
| Healthy controls | CRSsNP | CRSwNP | P-value | |
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| No. | 12 | 31 | 36 | |
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| Age, years | 47.8 +/− 10.9 | 47.9 +/− 2.3 | 46.6 +/− 2.5 | 0.72 |
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| Sex, no. female (%) | 8 (67%) | 16 (52) | 15 (42) | 0.47 |
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| Asthma, no. (%) | 0 (0) | 9 (29) | 23 (64) | 0.007 |
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| Allergic rhinitis, no. (%) | 1 (8) | 17 (55) | 28 (78) | 0.07 |
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| SNOT-22 score | - | 46.3 +/− 16.4 | 46.8 +/− 19.2 | 0.95 |
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| CT score | 2.6 +/− 2.2 | 12.6 +/− 4.4 | 18.4 +/− 4.5 | <0.0001 |
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| SIT score | −3.9 +/− 3.6 | −6.5 +/− 9.3 | −16.6 +/− 10.2 | <0.0001 |
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| Prior surgery, no. (%) | 0 (0) | 8 (26) | 19 (53) | 0.05 |
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| Tissue eos/HPF | 0.4 +/− 0.9 | 21.6 +/− 35.0 | 75.5 +/− 71.5 | <0.0001 |