Table 1.

Participants’ demographics.

	Healthy subjects	Patients
N (men/women)	10 (2/8)	16 (9/7)
Age (y)	35.5 ± 13.7	54.9 ± 17.0**
Height (m)	1.69 ± 0.10	1.72 ± 0.10
Weight (kg)	68.2 ± 10.5	82.7 ± 20.1*
VC (%pred.)		100.3 ± 19.2
FEV1 (%pred.)		75.2 ± 19.8
FEV1/VC		0.61 ± 0.13
DL.CO (%pred.)		80.5 ± 19.8

Mean ± SD. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, unpaired, two-tailed t-test.