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Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Sep 25;144(6):1566–1574.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.08.040

Table 1.

Characteristics of the subjects

	nasal lavage fluids			nasal tissue extracts
	Control	CRSsNP	CRSwNP	Control	CRSsNP	CRSwNP
	(n=15)	(n=15)	(n=21)	UT (n=8)	UT (n=7)	UT (n=7)	NP (n=15)
Gender, male/female	6/9	4/11	14/7^*	1/7	5/2	5/2	13/2^*
Ethnicity, White/non-White/unknown	6/4/5	13/1/1^*	14/5/2	7/0/1	6/1/0	5/2/0	8/5/2
Age, years	36.1±10.4	45.2±15.4	47.8±13.0^**	58.1±9.4	36.3±12.9^*	43.4±13.0^*	49.1±11.2^#
Comorbidity, yes/no/unknown
Asthma	0/15/0	6/9/0	9/12/0	1/7/0	3/4/0	4/3/0	6/9/0
Atopy	4/6/5	6/8/1	11/9/1	3/0/5	4/3/0	4/1/2	12/1/2
Steroid use, yes/no
Oral	0/15	0/15	3/18	1/7	1/6	2/5	2/13
Inhaled	0/15	2/13	3/18	0/8	1/6	2/5	1/14
Intranasal	2/13	2/13	2/19	0/8	2/5	2/5	4/11

^*;

p<0.05, vs. Control

^**;

p<0.01, vs. Control

^#;

p<0.05, vs. CRSsNP