Clinical characteristics of patients with bronchiectasis.

Numerical data were presented as mean ± standard deviation for normal distribution or otherwise median (interquartile range). Categorical data were expressed as number (percentage).Data in bold indicated the comparisons with statistical significance.* Of all bronchiectasis patients, other known causes consisted of immunodeficiency (n = 13, 8.8%), asthma (n = 8, 5.4%), gastroesophageal reflux (n = 6, 4.1%), aspergillosis (n = 2, 1.4%), rheumatoid arthritis (n = 2, 1.4%), Kartagener syndrome (n = 2, 1.4%), lung maldevelopment (n = 2, 1.4%), Young’s syndrome (n = 1, 0.7%), COPD (n = 1, 0.7%), lung sequestration (n = 1, 0.7%), yellow nail syndrome (n = 1, 0.7%) and diffuse panbronchiolitis (n = 1, 0.7%).None of the patients had ever used inhaled antibiotics in this study.Clinical characteristics of patients with bronchiectasis.