Respiratory Research

Table 1 Age and lung function data of the seven PCD patients involved in the study

From: Mucociliary and long-term particle clearance in airways of patients with immotile cilia

	Age	TLC	FRC	RV	VCmax	Rtot	FEV1	FEV1
Subj.	Years	%pred	%pred	%pred	%pred	kPa*s/l	%pred	%VCmax
#1	27	99	96	100	98	0.18	92	82.1
#2	35	110	124	158	90	0.3	68	65.9
#3	34	101	111	118	96	0.22	85	71.2
#4	42	98	112	124	88	0.31	57	52
#5	23	110	121	126	105	0.18	94	72.3
#6	28	91	84	87	93	0.26	93	79.9
#7	57	95	82	92	100	0.12	106	79.6
Mean	35.1	100.6	104.3	115.0	95.7**	0.22	85.0*	71.9
SD	11.5	7.2	17.1	24.5	5.9	0.07	16.9	10.5

(*: p < 0.05; **: p < 0.01 for PCD patients versus reference data from a previous study [24]).

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