Patient Demographics for an Interstitial Lung Disease Study

Demographics of patients presenting with interstitial lung disease included in this study. The dataset is a 5.5 KB Excel file authored by Lai-Ying Zhang and last updated on April 29, 2026. It is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on the figshare platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patient age and gender distributions within the study cohort based on demographic variables.
• Comparing demographic profiles across different interstitial lung disease subtypes mentioned in the study.
• Assessing potential recruitment or selection biases in the study based on the available patient demographics.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0), facilitating reuse and sharing.
• File size is 5.5 KB, indicating a compact and likely focused dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely collected as part of a clinical study on interstitial lung disease.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:43:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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