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Table 5 Associations of symptoms and disease histories with cluster membership

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

Symptoms and disease History

 Smoking pack-years at baseline

48.09

(22.27)

48.21

(25.3)

57.64

(27.4)

54.44

(22.9)

0.001

 History of pulmonary/vascular condition (%)

24

18

21

39

0.0056

 Chronic Bronchitis (%)

10

18

19

31

0.005

 Emphysema (%)

28

24

45

76

<  0.0001

 COPD diagnosed at baseline (%)

40

34

64

88

<  0.0001

 Chronic bronchitis diagnosed at baseline (%)

11

5

16

19

0.061

 Asthma (%)

12

20

19

23

0.285

 Wheezing and whistling in chest (%)

46

50

59

59

0.167

 Wheezing age (yrs.) (%)

60

67

78

68

0.19

 Sleep Apnea at baseline (%)

28

29

15

17

0.106

 Shortness of breath during sleep (%)

6

17

7

17

0.012

 Coronary artery disease

6

12

15

7

0.101

 Diabetes (%)

12

19

11

14

0.452

 Heart attack (%)

1

5

6

10

0.08

 Congestive heart failure (%)

1

2

3

2

0.81

Genetic effect

 Father had COPD (%)

15

14

22

33

0.006

 Mother had COPD (%)

9

12

12

23

0.041