Hayes J A
Thorax. 1969 Sep;24(5):619-22. doi: 10.1136/thx.24.5.619.
Measurements of the gland thickness and Reid index have been made on bronchi obtained at necropsy on 53 male and 52 female Jamaicans. The mean values for the Reid index and mucous gland thickness obtained were 0·314 and 0·192 mm. for males, and 0·302 and 0·170 mm. for females respectively. No significant increase in value was seen with age, although the data suggest this trend. The results have been compared with data published from Montreal and the same overall Gaussian distribution is seen. This supports the suggestion that the gland measurements in non-bronchitic and bronchitic subjects do not fall into two distinct groups but are part of a continuous distribution. The similarity of the two studies is also of interest as the populations are drawn from two distinct environments, one from a non-industrialized tropical island, the other from a large city in the northern hemisphere.
对53名牙买加男性和52名牙买加女性尸检时获取的支气管进行了腺体厚度和里德指数测量。所测得的男性里德指数和黏液腺厚度平均值分别为0.314和0.192毫米，女性分别为0.302和0.170毫米。尽管数据显示有这种趋势，但未观察到随年龄增长值有显著增加。已将结果与蒙特利尔公布的数据进行比较，观察到相同的总体高斯分布。这支持了这样一种观点，即非支气管炎患者和支气管炎患者的腺体测量值并非分为两个不同的组，而是连续分布的一部分。两项研究的相似性也很有趣，因为研究对象来自两个不同的环境，一个来自非工业化的热带岛屿，另一个来自北半球的大城市。
