CXCL8 and bronchiectasis: However bronchiectasis subjects had significantly higher gene expression relative to the median of healthy controls for IL1β (4.12 (1.24, 8.05) vs 1 (0.13, 2.95), 95% CI 0.05 to 4.07, p = 0.04) and IL-8 (3.75 (1.64, 11.27) vs 1 (0.54, 3.89), 95% CI 0.32 to 4.87, p = 0.02, Fig 3).