Results for all IPF patients: Demographics and Disease Severity by FVC percent predicted
| Total IPF patients n = 528 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Male | Female | Row total | |||||
| Number of patients (proportion) | 431 (82%) | 97 (18%) | 528 | |||||
| Ethnicity | Caucasian | Non-Caucasian | ||||||
| Number of patients (proportion) | 453 (86%) | 75 (14%) | 528 | |||||
| Characteristic | Unit | Median | IQ range | |||||
| Age | years | 72 | 68–78 | |||||
| FVC | litres | 2.175 | 1.700–2.780 | |||||
| Reference equations used | ECSC | FVC%pred | 64.9 | 52.2–75.9 | ||||
| GLI | FVC%pred | 60.6 | 49.3–72.4 | |||||
| NHANES | FVC%pred | 58.9 | 49.4–70.0 | |||||
| FVC percent predicted range | ||||||||
| >80% | <80% | Row total | ||||||
| Reference equations used | ECSC | Number of patients | 98 | 430 | 528 | |||
| GLI | 73 | 455 | 528 | |||||
| NHANES | 64 | 464 | 528 | |||||
Key for Table 1: FVC = forced vital capacity; ECSC = European Community for Steel and Coal; GLI = Global Lung Index; NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; %pred = percent predicted; IQ = interquartile