Table 1 Patients’ demography
From: Mechanisms of corticosteroid insensitivity in COPD alveolar macrophages exposed to NTHi
Criteria | Smokers | COPD |
|---|---|---|
Gender (male/female) | (9/4) | (19/10) |
Age (years) | 71.8 ± 7.5 | 68.3 ± 6 |
FEV1 | 2.4 ± 0.6 | 1.9 ± 0.6 |
FEV1% predicted | 102.9 ± 25.2 | 71.1 ± 20.0 |
FVC | 10.4 ± 25.4 | 3.4 ± 0.7 |
FEV1/FVC | 74.8 ± 12.3 | 54.7 ± 14.6 |
Pack year history | 43.03 ± 34.2 | 45.3 ± 19.7 |
Current smoking | 8 | 23 |
Corticosteroids users | 0 | 6 |