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Table 2 Mean #IVdays within and beyond 4 km of a PCS in pwCF in the UK in 2016. p-value < 0.05 are shown in bold

From: Assessing the health risk of living near composting facilities on lung health, fungal and bacterial disease in cystic fibrosis: a UK CF Registry study

 

#IVdays

Characteristics

n (%)

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

p-value

 

 ≤ 4 km

 > 4 km

(n = 9,361 (100%)

(n = 1,015;10.8%)

(n = 8,346; 89.2%)

Age (years)

   

0.291

 Children < 6

1,561 (16.7)

5.5 (9.8)

5.1 (11.2)

  6-15

2,370 (25.3)

12.7 (21.8)

12.4 (20.9)

 Adults ≥ 16

5,430 (58.0)

22.4 (34.2)

21.0 (32.7)

Sex

   

0.003

 Female

4,371 (46.7)

22.0 (35.1)

18.7 (30.5)

 Male

4,990 (53.3)

14.2 (24.4)

13.9 (25.4)

Genotype

   

0.004

 Homozygous F508del

4,603 (49.2)

22.9 (38.1)

17.7 (29.9)

 F508del/MF

1,822 (19.5)

12.3 (21.7)

12.4 (25.0)

 RF/other

1,070 (11.4)

8.4 (22.1)

8.4 (17.0)

 F508del/other

663 (7.1)

21.0 (30.1)

19.4 (30.1)

 Gating/anya

583 (6.2)

11.8 (19.6)

19.0 (27.6)

 MF/MF

298 (3.2)

18.7 (30.3)

11.0 (20.2)

 Other/other

176 (1.9)

10.6 (22.8)

12.2 (32.3)

 MF/other

146 (1.6)

5.7 (19.7)

6.2 (16.5)

P. aeruginosa culture

   

< 0.001

 Negative

5,108 (55.2)

77.6 (22.4)

80.4 (21.4)

 Positive

4,139 (44.8)

61.2 (24.0)

62.8 (23.4)

Deprivation quintile (Townsend)

   

0.005

 Q1 (least deprived)

1,905 (20.4)

15.2 (24.6)

14.1 (25.4)

 Q2

1,948 (20.8)

16.8 (27.1)

15.6 (28.1)

 Q3

1,982 (21.2)

15.7 (32.1)

15.4 (26.4)

 Q4

1,868 (20.0)

17.7 (30.5)

16.6 (28.8)

 Q5 (most deprived)

1,658 (17.7)

22.0 (33.6)

19.4 (31.5)

Rural and Urban

   

0.004

 Rural

1,794 (19.2)

16.0 (25.1)

15.3 (26.4)

 Urban

7,567 (80.8)

18.1 (30.7)

16.3 (28.4)

  1. #IVdays Number of days on IV antibiotics for PEx, PCS permitted composting site, pwCF people with cystic fibrosis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa P. aeruginosa
  2. MF = Minimal function (a mutation that produces either no protein or protein that do not respond to currently approved CFTR modulators); RF = Residual function; Other = Either the mutation was not identified, or it was identified but classification into one of the other categories was not possible
  3. aExcept RF mutation