TABLE 2.

Clinical characteristics of patient samples and expression of NLRP3 and GSDMD

		NLRP3			GSDMD
	Total	High	Low	P value	High	Low	P value
Patients (n)	20	9	11	–	10	10	–
Sex (n)	20	9	11	.49	10	10	1
Age (years)	49.7 ± 10.3	51.3 ± 12.1	48.4 ± 9.1	.54	51.9 ± 11.5	57.5 ± 9.1	.36
Weight (kg)	66.9 ± 7.6	69.2 ± 5.8	64.9 ± 8.6	.22	67.4 ± 7.9	66.3 ± 7.7	.76
NDI	35.6 ± 3.9	38.2 ± 3.9	33.6 ± 2.2	.03	37.9 ± 3.9	33.2 ± 5.3	.04
ASIA (n)
a	1	1	0	.105	1	0	.306
b	7	5	2		5	2
c	9	3	6		3	6
d	3	0	3		1	2
e	0	0	0		0	0