Table 3– Correlation between disease duration, high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) airway wall thickening and HRCT air trapping
HRCT variablesDisease duration
Spearman rankp-value
Visual score air trapping-0.0610.676
Visual score airway wall thickening0.0890.536
Wall area percentage-0.0610.671
WABSA-0.0380.797
WA%age-0.2740.052
ATHU-8500.4170.004
AT15-0.3820.008
  • WABSA: wall area normalised to body size; WA%age: wall area percentage corrected for age; HU: Hounsfield units; ATHU-850: number of voxels < -850 HU as percentage of total number of voxels; AT15: HU at 15th percentile.