Causes of higher symptomatic airway load in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis

Table 1 Mean VAS and SNOT scores for the different patient categories

	Septoplasty	CRSsNP	CRSwNP	P-value (ANOVA)	P-value (t-test)
Number of patients	22	23	30
Time to referral (months)		99	59		0.325
VAS score		63	68.6		0.265
SNOT-20 (total score)	29.9	39.8	43.6	0.034	0.455
SNOT (subscore)
Need to blow nose	2.23	2.35	3.5	<0.001	0.001
Sneezing	1.27	1.57	1.87	0.29	0.425
Runny nose	1.86	2.17	2.93	0.02	0.046
Cough	1.27	1.09	2.10	0.02	0.011
Post-nasal discharge	1.73	1.48	2.3	0.19	0.077
Thick nasal discharge	1.73	2.3	3.07	0.02	0.119
Facial pain/pressure	1.27	2.43	2.03	0.04	0.355

One-way ANOVA was applied to calculate the significance of differences between CRSsNP, CRSwNP and septoplasty patients. The student’s t-test was used to identify differences between CRSsNP and CRSwNP

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