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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Proteome Res. 2017 Aug 8;16(9):3266–3276. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00245

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics for Discovery and PRM Validation Cohorts

discovery cohort
PRM validation cohort
patients normal lung (%) benign nodule (%) ADC (%) P value normal lung (%) benign nodule (%) ADC (%) P value

N = 10 N = 34 N = 24 N = 20 N = 20 N = 21
age ± SD 68.2 ± 5.8 56.4 ± 12.6 62.3 ± 7.8 0.043a 56.8 ± 13.8 60.5 ± 13.5 65.6 ± 8.6 0.088a
gender 0.616b 0.198b
   male 3 (60) 18 (53) 10 (42) 10 (50) 6 (30) 12 (57)
   female 2 (40) 16 (47) 14 (58) 10 (50) 14 (70) 9 (43)
race 0.792b 0.380b
   Caucasian 5 (100) 30 (88) 20 (83) 20 (100) 20 (100) 20 (95)
   African American 0 (0) 2 (6) 3 (13) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (5)
   other 0 (0) 2 (6) 1 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
nodule (mm) ± SD N/A 25.3 ± 27.8 29.4 ± 18.5 0.067c N/A 22.9 ± 18.5 23.8 ± 12.4 0.538c
pack years ± SD 71.0 ± 37.5 37.1 ± 30.3 42.4 ± 19.1 0.080a 27.8 ± 26.1 23.9 ± 33.6 39.8 ± 34.4 0.216a
FEV1% ± SD 52.0 ± 24.7 79.0 ± 22.6 71.1 ± 18.8 0.063a 77.3 ± 32.5 82.3 ± 25.0 69.3 ± 25.4 0.286a
ADC path stage
   IA-IB 22 (92) 17(81)
   IIA-IIIA 1 (4) 4 (19)
   IIIB-IV 1 (4) 0 (0)
benign histologies
   acid fast bacilli 3 (9) 4 (20)
   acute inflam. 1(3) 0 (0)
   benign tumor 2 (6) 0 (0)
   fungal 16 (47) 11 (55)
   mixed etiology 12 (35) 5 (25)
a

Kruskal-Wallis test.

b

Pearson chi-square test.

c

Wilcoxon rank sum test.