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. 2021 Dec 23;8:729203. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.729203

Table 1.

Patient characteristics in individual countries.

Total
N = 2,492
Czech Republic
N = 971
Turkey
N = 505
Poland
N = 285
Hungary
N = 216
Slovakia
N = 149
Israel
N = 120
Serbia
N = 95
Croatia
N = 87
Austria
N = 55
Bulgaria
N = 9
Median age, years (range)
All 2492/69 (54;82) 971/70 (54;82)
T, S, R, A
505/68 (52;81)
C, A
285/69 (57;84)
S, R, A
216/70 (53;82)
A
149/67 (48;79)
C, P, A
120/67 (55;82)
A
95/65 (48;79)
C, P, A
87/70 (53;82)
A
55/74 (63;87)
C, T, P, HU, S, I, R, HR
9/69 (57;83)
Men 1786/69 (54;82) 719/70 (54;82) 383/68 (51;79) 206/69 (57;84) 125/69 (53;82) 97/68 (50;78) 83/69 (57;82) 57/67 (50;79) 64/71 (54;83) 45/74 (64;87) 7/71 (57;83)
Women 706/68 (54;82) 252/71 (54;82) 122/68 (54;83) 79/70 (57;84) 91/70 (54;82) 52/67 (40;81) 37/64 (50;78) 38/63 (44;81) 23/69 (51;76) 10/69 (62;81) 2/69 (68;69)
Sex, N (%)
Men 1786 (71.7%) 719 (74.0%) 383 (75.8%) 206 (72.3%) 125 (57.9%) 97 (65.1%) 83 (69.2%) 57 (60.0%) 64 (73.6%) 45 (81.8%) 7 (77.8%)
Women 706 (28.3%) 252 (26.0%) HU 122 (24.2%) HU 79 (27.7%) HU 91 (42.1%) C, T, P 52 (34.9%) 37 (30.8%) 38 (40.0%) 23 (26.4%) 10 (18.2%) 2 (22.2%)
Smoking, N (%)
Never-smoker 919 (37.1%) 395 (40.7%)
T, P, R, HR
155 (30.7%)
C, S, R
70 (24.6%)
C, HU, S, R
90 (44.3%)
P, HR
81 (55.1%)
T, P, HR, A
50 (41.7%)
HR
53 (56.4%)
C, T, P, HR, A
12 (13.8%)
C, HU, S, I, R
11 (20.0%)
S, R
2 (22.2%)
Ever-smoker 1496 (60.4%) 562 (57.9%) 336 (66.5%) 206 (72.5%) 106 (52.2%) 62 (42.2%) 66 (55.0%) 36 (38.3%) 73 (83.9%) 42 (76.4%) 7 (77.8%)
Current smoker 60 (2.4%) 14 (1.4%) 14 (2.8%) 8 (2.8%) 7 (3.4%) 4 (2.7%) 4 (3.3%) 5 (5.3%) 2 (2.3%) 2 (3.6%) 0 (0.0%)
BMI, kg/m2 (range) 2443/28.0 (21.7;36.0) 967/28.6 (22.2;36.1)
T, R, A
496/27.7 (21.3;34.9)
C, R
281/28.0 (22.8;35.9)
R
187/27.6 (20.8;37.7) 146/28.1 (22.2;37.1)
R
120/27.7 (20.7;36.8) 95/26.1 (21.0;32.0)
C, T, P, S
87/27.4 (21.5;34.0) 55/26.4 (21.5;34.2)
C
9/29.2 (23.5;35.8)
Dyspnea—NYHA
I 113 (4.9%) 13 (1.4%)
T, P, HU, I, R, HR, A
23 (4.7%)
C, P, HU, S, I, R, HR, A
20 (8.3%)
C, T, S
31 (16.1%)
C, T, S
0 (0.0%)
T, P, HU, R, HR, A, M
9 (7.6%)
C, T
4 (4.8%)
C, T, S
8 (9.9%)
C, T, S
5 (11.1%)
C, T, S
0 (0.0%)
II 1325 (57.1%) 582 (62.7%) 172 (35.5%) 159 (66.3%) 106 (54.9%) 96 (68.6%) 73 (61.9%) 49 (59.0%) 56 (69.1%) 28 (62.2%) 4 (44.4%)
III 848 (36.5%) 325 (35.0%) 285 (58.8%) 55 (22.9%) 53 (27.5%) 44 (31.4%) 33 (28.0%) 22 (26.5%) 15 (18.5%) 11 (24.4%) 5 (55.6%)
IV 36 (1.6%) 8 (0.9%) 5 (1.0%) 6 (2.5%) 3 (1.6%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (2.5%) 8 (9.6%) 2 (2.5%) 1 (2.2%) 0 (0.0%)
Cough, N (%)
Yes 1,594 (68.0%) 664 (73.0%)
S
335 (66.7%)
S
180 (64.7%) 118 (65.6%) 69 (51.1%)
C, T, R
77 (68.8%) 60 (75.9%)
S
53 (60.9%) 31 (57.4%) 7 (87.5%)
Dry 966 (60.6%) 459 (69.1%)
T, I, A, B
175 (52.2%)
C, A, B
106 (58.9%)
A, B
64 (54.2%)
A, B
50 (72.5%)
A, B
33 (42.9%)
C, A, B
42 (70.0%)
A, B
25 (47.2%)
A, B
8 (25.8%)
C, T, P, HU, S, I, R, HR
4 (57.1%)
C, T, P, HU, S, I, R, HR
Productive 599 (37.6%) 195 (29.4%) 159 (47.5%) 73 (40.6%) 53 (44.9%) 19 (27.5%) 43 (55.8%) 18 (30.0%) 28 (52.8%) 11 (35.5%) 0 (0.0%)
Unknown 29 (1.8%) 10 (1.5%) 1 (0.3%) 1 (0.6%) 1 (0.8%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (1.3%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 12 (38.7%) 3 (42.9%)
Crackles, N (%) 2254 (90.7%) 947 (97.5%)
T, P, HU, S, R, A
392 (77.6%)
C, P, HU, I, HR
264 (93.0%)
C, T
192 (91.0%)
C, T
127 (85.2%)
C
112 (93.3%)
T
83
(87.4%)
C
84
(96.6%)
T
44
(80.0%)
C
9
(100.0%)
Finger clubbing, N (%) 874 (35.2%) 423 (43.6%)
T, P, S, A
135 (26.7%)
C, I, HR
70 (24.6%)
C, HU, I, HR
81 (38.6%)
P, S, A
26 (17.4%)
C, HU, I, HR, B
55 (45.8%)
T, P, S, A
27 (28.4%)
HR
47 (54.0%)
T, P, S, R, A
4 (7.3%)
C, HU, I, HR, B, M
6 (66.7%)
S, A
GAP Score, N (%)
I 897(45.0%) 331 (42.1%) 163 (43.8%) 130 (53.5%) 83 (55.3%) 76 (58.5%) 38 (35.8%) 25 (38.5%) 31 (39.7%) 17 (31.5%) 3 (37.5%)
II 904 (45.4%) 380 (48.3%) 164 (44.1%) 97 (39.9%) 57 (38.0%) 46 (35.4%) 56 (52.8%) 33 (50.8%) 42 (53.8%) 27 (50.0%) 2 (25.0%)
III 192 (9.6%) 76 (9.7%) 45 (12.1%) 16 (6.6%) 10 (6.7%) 8 (6.2%) 12 (11.3%) 7 (10.8%) 5 (6.4%) 10 (18.5%) 3 (37.5%)
HRCT pattern, N (%)
UIP 1523 (67.5%) 647 (73.8%)
T, HU, S, R, A
284 (62.1%)
C, P, A
207 (77.2%)
T, HU, S, R, A
119 (58.3%)
C, P
76 (56.3%)
C, P
75 (76.5%)
R, A
42 (49.4%)
C, P, I
48 (61.5%) 19 (43.2%)
C, T, P, I
6 (66.7%)
Possible UIP 653 (29.0%) 218 (24.9%) 138 (30.2%) 60 (22.4%) 78 (38.2%) 53 (39.3%) 19 (19.4%) 32 (37.6%) 27 (34.6%) 25 (56.8%) 3 (33.3%)
Inconsistent with UIP 79 (3.5%) 12 (1.4%) 35 (7.7%) 1 (0.4%) 7 (3.4%) 6 (4.4%) 4 (4.1%) 11 (12.9%) 3 (3.8%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Comorbidities
0 211 (8.5%) 77 (7.9%)
P, HU, S, I, R, M
29 (5.7%)
P, HU, S, I, R, M
27 (9.5%)
C, T, I, R, HR, M
32 (14.8%)
C, T, I, HR, M
24 (16.1%)
C, T, I, HR, M
0 (0.0%)
C, T, P, HU, S, R, A, B, M
16 (16.8%)
C, T, P, I, HR, M
2 (2.3%)
P, HU, S, R, A, M
3 (5.5%)
I, HR, M
1 (11.1%)
I
1 449 (18.0%) 144 (14.8%) 73 (14.5%) 65 (22.8%) 55 (25.5%) 45 (30.2%) 5 (4.2%) 35 (36.8%) 8 (9.2%) 15 (27.3%) 4 (44.4%)
2 463 (18.6%) 179 (18.4%) 94 (18.6%) 63 (22.1%) 43 (19.9%) 27 (18.1%) 10 (8.3%) 25 (26.3%) 8 (9.2%) 13 (23.6%) 1 (11.1%)
>2 1369 (54.9%) 571 (58.8%) 309 (61.2%) 130 (45.6%) 86 (39.8%) 53 (35.6%) 105 (87.5%) 19 (20.0%) 69 (79.3%) 24 (43.6%) 3 (33.3%)

Data are N (%) or median (range); GAP, Gender-Age-Physiology.