Demographical data for patients and healthy volunteers
| Denver patients | Iowa patients | |||||||
| With ARDS | With CBD | With IPF | With PSS | Healthy volunteers | With IPF | With sarcoid | Healthy volunteers | |
| Subjects n | 21 | 19 | 142 | 37 | 46 | |||
| Male | 13 (61.9%) | 14 (73.7%) | 93 (65.5%) | 7 (18.9%) | 30 (65.2%) | 35 (51.5%) | 53 (33.1%) | 28 (57.1%) |
| Caucasian | 6 (28.6%) | 17 (89.5%) | 129 (90.9%) | 27 (73.0%) | 42 (91.3%) | 66 (97.1%) | 137 (85.1%) | 46 (93.9%) |
| Smoking | ||||||||
| Current | 2 (10.5%) | 20 (14.1%) | 7 (18.9%) | 1 (3.5%) | 10 (17.2%) | 14 (11.2%) | 6 (25.0%) | |
| Former | 9 (47.4%) | 78 (54.9%) | 11 (29.7%) | 1 (3.5%) | 32 (55.2%) | 29 (23.2%) | 12 (50.0%) | |
| Never | 8 (42.1%) | 44 (31.0%) | 19 (51.4%) | 27 (93.1%) | 16 (27.6%) | 82 (65.6%) | 6 (25.0%) | |
| Age yrs mean±sd | 42.6±16.5 | 48.4±8.9 | 60.0±12.9 | 49.5±12.7 | 37.9±8.6 | 62.5±12.4 | 45.5±11.6 | 40.2±10.5 |
Data are presented as n (%) unless otherwise stated
ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome
CBD: chronic beryllium disease
IPF: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
PSS: progressive systemic sclerosis