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Table 5 Comparison of treatment and courses of disease between patients with and without recurrent wheezing episodes

From: Risk factors for recurrent wheezing after bronchiolitis in infants: 2-year follow up in China

Factors

RW(−), n = 63(%)

RW(+), n = 18(%)

statistics

P

Oxygen inhalation

8 (12.7)

3 (16.7)

0.002

*0.965

Systemic glucocorticoid treatment

23 (36.5)

12 (66.7)

5.189

0.023

Hospital stay(d)

7.63 ± 2.07

8.39 ± 2.09

1.844

0.178

Course of disease(d)

14.97 (10,30)

16.28 (11,30)

−1.400

0.162

  1. note: RW(+), patients with recurrent wheezing episodes; RW (−), patients without recurrent wheezing episodes
  2. Data are expressed as % of positive cases, mean ± SD or median (minimum-maximum), unless otherwise stated
  3. * Continuity correction