Table 2.
Patient characteristics of matched pairs
| Symptomatic cohort N = 10 |
Asymptomatic cohort N = 10 |
p values | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age in years | 0.93 | ||
| Median (± SD) | 35.40 (± 15.5) | 36.20 (± 15.5) | |
| Gender | > 0.9999 | ||
| Male | 1 (10%) | 1 (10%) | |
| Female | 9 (90%) | 9 (90%) | |
| Allergic rhinitis or hay fever | > 0.9999 | ||
| Yes | 5 (50%) | 5 (50%) | |
| No | 5 (50%) | 5 (50%) | |
| Chronic rhinosinusitis | > 0.9999 | ||
| Yes | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
| No | 10 (100%) | 10 (100%) | |
| Bronchial asthma | 0.30 | ||
| Yes | 4 (40%) | 0 (0%) | |
| No | 6 (60%) | 10 (100%) | |
| Smoker | 0.65 | ||
| Nonsmoker | 3 (30%) | 8 (80%) | |
| Active smoker | 7 (70%) | 2 (20%) |