Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data, quantitative radiological indexes, and qualitative CT severity scores for early and late treatment groups

		Early treatment (n = 18)	Late treatment (n = 14)	p value
Age (years)	(Mean ± standard deviation)	51 ± 19	52 ± 12	0.43
Gender	Male: female	10:8	9:5	0.32
Height (cm)	(Mean ± standard deviation)	163.4 ± 10.5	165.1 ± 9.2	0.59
Body weight (Kg)	(Mean ± standard deviation)	62.2 ± 16.1	67.7 ± 10.3	0.17
Clinical symptoms	Number (%)	18 (100)	12 (85.7)	0.07
Fever	Number (%)	10 (55.6)	8 (57.1)	0.93
Time between onset of clinical symptoms and CT examination (days)	(Mean ± standard deviation)	5.8 ± 3.3	5.9 ± 3.7	0.88
Quantitative indexes (%: mean ± standard deviation)	Normal lung	86.6 ± 5.6	86.9 ± 7.9	0.56
	GGO	7.1 ± 4.7	7.1 ± 4.8	0.99
	Reticulation or crazy paving	3.7 ± 3.8	4.2 ± 4.7	0.81
	Emphysema	0.7 ± 1.7	0.5 ± 1.1	0.59
	Nodular lesion	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.27
	Consolidation	1.8 ± 2.3	1.2 ± 1.8	0.47
	Honeycombing	0.1 ± 0.1	0.1 ± 0.1	0.66
CT disease severity score	(Mean ± standard deviation)	5.6 ± 4.7	7.1 ± 3.9	0.24

GGO ground-glass opacity