Research Article

Predictive Values of Serum IL-33 and sST2 in Endotypes and Postoperative Recurrence of Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps

Table 2

Comparison of demographic and clinical characteristics between the neCRSwNP and eCRSwNP groups.

VariablesneCRSwNP ()eCRSwNP ()

Age (years)0.491
Male/female45/3537/320.869
Smoking, (%)20 (25.0)16 (23.2)0.849
BMI (kg/m2)0.388
Atopy, (%)7 (7.2)21 (30.4)0.001
Allergic rhinitis, (%)10 (12.5)22 (31.9)0.005
Asthma, (%)5 (6.3)13 (18.8)0.023
B-EOS count (106/L)<0.001
B-EOS percentage (%)<0.001
Lund-Mackay score19 (15, 21)18 (15, 20)0.873
Lund-Kennedy score9 (6, 11)9 (7, 11)0.921
VAS score5 (3, 7)5 (3, 6)0.945
T-EOS count14.2 (10.4, 19.1)50.6 (36.8, 64.4)<0.001
T-EOS percentage (%)6.5 (3.6, 8.5)21.1 (15.6, 28.3)<0.001

neCRSwNP: noneosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps; eCRSwNP: eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps; BMI: body mass index; B-EOS: blood eosinophil; VAS: visual analogue scale; T-EOS: tissue eosinophil.