Figure 1

Analyses of the clinical parameters of IPAF patients and comparisons with those of IIPpatients.
ESR (D) and DLCO (E) were exclusively significantly higher in the subjects with IPAF than in those with IIP. The horizontal line from bottom to top denotes the minimum, 25th percentile, median, 75th percentile, and maximum. Mean values are denoted by “+”. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 compared with the other cohort.