Telomeric repeat-containing ribonucleic acid (TERRA) expression in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics

Table 3 Correlation between TERRA expression and different clinical and radiological characteristic

Variables	Relative expression
Variables	r	p
HRCT reticular extent score	0.474	0.008*
HRCT honeycombing extent score	0.213	0.258
HRCT GGOs extent score	0.094	0.623
Age	0.627	0.0001*
Duration of symptoms	0.612	≤ 0.001*
Dyspnea grade	− 0.081	0.669
Cough grade	0.154	0.418
FEV1 %predicted	− 0.183	0.332
FVC% predicted	− 0.372	0.034*
DLCO%	− 0.355	0.051