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Table 1 Clinical baseline characteristics of the IPF cohort

From: The European IPF registry (eurIPFreg): baseline characteristics and survival of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Demographic parameters

Value

Ethnical origin (% of the whole IPF cohort)

 Caucasian

67.6

 African

3.8

 Indian

1.3

 Polynesian

1.0

 Missing data (Patients did not provide the ethnic origin)

26

Male (%)

73.7

BMI

 mean value ± SD (kg-m2)

27.2 ± 4.6

Familial IPF (% of the whole IPF cohort)

 Grade A - Direct relative suffers or died at IPF / NSIP

9.5

 Grade B - Direct relative suffers or died from IIP

4.4

 Grade C - Direct relative suffers / died from non-classified lung disease

4.8

Age at diagnosis

 mean value ± SD (years)

65.2 ± 11.6

Age at enrollment into the registry

 mean value ± SD (years)

68.1 ± 11.1

Time between onset of symptoms and inclusion into eurIPFreg

 median; q1-q3 (months)

36.5; 19.2–70.3

 mean value ± SD (months)

59 ± 3.85

Time between onset of symptoms and diagnosis

 median; q1-q3 (months)

6; 1–25.5

 mean value ± SD (months)

21.8 ± 3.49

 Smokers/ Ex-Smokers/ Never-Smokers (%)

4.0/65.4/30.6