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Table 1 Clinical demographics of the subjects in this study

From: Comparison of cytokine expression and disease severity between plasma cell-dominant and eosinophil-dominant patients in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps

  

Subjects

  

Variables

Control

(n = 19)

Eosinophil-dominated CRSwNP

(n = 20)

Plasma cell-dominated

CRSwNP

(n = 33)

p value

Gender (male), n (%)

11 (57.9)

14 (77.8)

25 (75.0)

0.3067

Age (years), Mean ± SE

37.9 ± 2.9

50.3 ± 2.8

45.9 ± 2.7

0.3482

Peripheral eosinophil (%), Mean ± SE

3.2 ± 0.7

4.6 ± 0.7

3.3 ± 0.4

0.3260

Serum IgE level (IU/L), Mean ± SE

51.3 ± 7.7

89.4 ± 22.9

197.4 ± 40.0

< 0.0001*

Methodologies used

    

Tissue ELISA (n)

19

20

33

-

Tissue IHC (n)

19

20

33

-

  1. Significance was considered at p < 0.05; CRSwNP: chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps; IgE: immunoglobulin E; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; IHC: immunohistochemistry