Research Article
Is There a Correlation between New Scoring Systems and Systemic Inflammation in Stable Bronchiectasis?
Table 1
Characteristics of the study participants.
| | Characteristics | Patients (n = 117) |
| | Male/female (N%) | 65/52 (55.6/44.4) | | Mean age (years) | 53 ± 15.1 | | BMI (kg/m2) | 27.3 ± 5.6 | | FVC (%) | 64.2 ± 21.2 | | FEV1 (%) | 55.5 ± 21.2 | | FEV1/FVC (%) | 70.1 ± 13.7 | | Pack-years smoked | 9.7 ± 14.8 | | Ex-smokers, N (%) | 30 (25.6) | | Never smokers, N (%) | 68 (58.1) | | Current smokers, N (%) | 19 (15.3) | | CRP (mg/L) | 10.4 ± 8.0 | | N/L ratio | 2.2 ± 1.5 | | WBC (/mm3) | 8449 ± 2449 | | Pseudomonas aeruginosa, N (%) | 11 (9.4) | | Other microorganisms, N (%) | 11 (9.4) | | Number of affected lobes | 2.6 ± 1.0 | | Exacerbations in previous year | 2.0 ± 2.3 | | Number of hospitalizations in the last two years | 0.3 ± 0.6 |
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BMI, body mass index; FVC, forced vital capacity; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in 1 second; FEV1/FVC, forced expiratory volume in 1 second/forced vital capacity; N/L ratio, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio.
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