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Table 5. KRECs results according to age groups.

KRECs (106PMBC)	Age groups				p¹
	<45 years		>45 years
	Mean±SD	Median	Mean±SD	Median
Preop	22x10⁵±32x10⁵	4x10⁵	13x10⁵±15x10⁵	7x10⁵	1.000
Postop 24^th h	96x10⁵±150x10⁵	21x10⁵	5x10⁵±3x10⁵	4x10⁵	0.584
Postop 7^th day	836x10⁵±1808x10⁵	112x10⁵	37x10⁵±5x10⁵	1x10⁵	0.011*
Preop-postop 24^th h p²	0.345		0.500
Preop-postop 7^th day p²	0.116		0.345
Postop 24^th h-postop 7^th day p²	0.249		0.500
KRECs: Kappa-deleting recombination excision circles; PMBC: Peripheral mononuclear blood cell; IPF: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. SD: Standard deviation; Preop: Pre-operation; 1 Mann-Whitney U test; 2 Wilcoxon sign-rank test; * p<0.05.