Table 2:
Healthy subject means and standard deviations from their gas-exchange maps for the healthy pediatric and adult cohorts described by the median and interquartile range for their age group. Wilcoxon rank-sum tests show significant differences in medians and are bold.
| Ventilation | Dissolved (×10–3) | Barrier-uptake (×10–3) | RBC-transfer (×10–3) | RBC: Barrier | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | |
| Median [Q1-Q3] | ||||||||||
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| ||||||||||
| Pediatric Healthy N = 5 |
0.75
[0.74–0.76] |
0.14
[0.13–0.14] |
9.06 [8.30–9.52] |
1.32 [0.77–1.56] |
8.17 [7.89–9.35] |
1.30 [0.76–1.59] |
2.13 [2.12–2.74] |
0.62 [0.56–0.74] |
0.29
[0.26–0.32] |
0.09 [0.07–0.09] |
| Adult Healthy N = 9 |
0.69
[0.64–0.71] |
0.17
[0.16–0.19] |
9.05 [7.51–9.33] |
1.15 [1.04–1.51] |
8.32 [7.20–8.62] |
1.06 [0.97–1.47] |
3.26 [2.96–3.90] |
0.82 [0.72–1.05] |
0.43
[0.39–0.55] |
0.13 [0.08–0.15] |
| P-value | 0.003 | 0.002 | 0.369 | 0.369 | 0.274 | 0.369 | 0.063 | 0.081 | 0.027 | 0.081 |