Achalasia—An Autoimmune Inflammatory Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Demographic, clinical, and laboratory variables.

	Blood healthy donors	Tissue control group	Type I achalasia	Type II achalasia	Type III achalasia
	(n = 20)	(n = 5)	(n = 8)	(n = 19)	(n = 5)
Age (years), mean ± SD	40.8 ± 10.1	72.2 ± 8.9	44.2 ± 14.2	45.6 ± 16.3	45.0 ± 17.4
Sex, female/male	12/8	4/1	4/4	12/7	4/1
Disease evolution (months), mean ± SD	ND	ND	43.7 ± 12.2	36.9 ± 7.9	69.0 ± 35.8
Dysphagia (%)	ND	ND	100	95	100
Regurgitation (%)	ND	ND	86	94	80
Weight loss (%)	ND	ND	71	78	100
Pyrosis (%)	ND	ND	57	42	40
Other autoimmune diseases (%)	ND	ND	0	11
ESR >20 mmHg (%)	ND	ND	17	25	20

; ND: Not determined.