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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017 Sep 30;37(3):394–400. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.09.017

Table 5.

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Illness Severity at Transplant Listing by Race/Ethnicity

White Black Asian Hispanic p value
n = 5732 n =486 n = 181 n = 626
Age (years) 62.4 (57.3, 66.5) 54.3 (46.0, 60.7) 63.0 (55.7, 66.7) 59.8 (53.1, 65.1) < 0.001
Forced Vital Capacity (% predicted) 48 (39, 59) 42 (33, 55) 40 (33, 52) 41 (32, 51) < 0.001
Resting Oxygen (liters per minute) 4 (2, 6) 4 (2, 6) 4 (2, 6) 4 (2, 6) 0.04
Six Minute Walk Distance (feet) 834 (393, 1165) 708 (288, 1001) 740 (295, 1043) 617 (265, 944) < 0.001
Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure (mmHg) 38 (31, 47) 45 (36, 57) 35 (29, 46) 38 (30, 47) < 0.001
Mechanical Ventilation (%) 203 (3.5%) 13 (2.7%) 8 (4.4%) 28 (4.5%) 0.498
Lung Allocation Score, at listing 42.0 (37.0, 51.3) 43.7 (37.2, 55.1) 46.2 (39.5, 61.2) 44.6 (38.6, 56.7) < 0.001

This table displays median (interquartile range) for continuous variables and N (%) for categorical variable