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Table 4 Demography, baseline (pre-bronchodilator) and maximal (post-bronchodilator) PFTs, in four imaging-based clusters

From: Imaging-based clusters in former smokers of the COPD cohort associate with clinical characteristics: the SubPopulations and intermediate outcome measures in COPD study (SPIROMICS)

 

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

Cluster 3

Cluster 4

P value

N = 100

N = 80

N = 141

N = 85

Demography

 GOLD (%) (0/1/2/3/4)

62/23/14/1/0

57/20/20/2/0

6/24/51/16/3

2/0/12/46/40

< 0.0001

 Strata (%) (2/3/4)

62/37/1

57/40/2

6/74/19

2/12/86

< 0.0001

 BODE index

0.28

(0.61)

0.60

(1.12)

1.31

(1.78)

3.99

(2.00)

<  0.0001

 Sex (Female %)

32

64

34

41

0.00015

 Race (White/African-American/Other)

88/6/6

75/20/5

91/4/5

84/12/5

0.0088

 Age (yrs.)

64.91

(7.11)

66.59

(7.92)

69.37

(5.94)

65.67

(7.92)

<  0.0001

 BMI (kg/m2)

28.67

(4.43)

30.76

(4.55)

28.49

(4.6)

25.68

(4.44)

<  0.0001

PFT Baseline lung function a

 FEV1% predicted

88

(18)

79

(16)

59

(20)

31

(15)

<  0.0001

 FVC % predicted

97

(14)

88

(14)

85

(18)

71

(19)

<  0.0001

 FEV1/FVC × 100

68

(10)

68

(9)

51

(11)

32

(10)

<  0.0001

PFT Maximal lung function b

 FEV1% predicted

95

(17)

86

(16)

68

(19)

37

(17)

<  0.0001

 FVC % predicted

101

(14)

91

(14)

94

(17)

80

(20)

<  0.0001

 FEV1/FVC × 100

72

(10)

71

(9)

53

(11)

34

(12)

<  0.0001

  1. Data presented as number (%) or mean (SD)
  2. aPre-bronchodilator values
  3. bPost-bronchodilator values after six to eight puffs of albuterol. Full names of each variable were described in Abbreviations used. BODE indexes for 24 subjects were not available