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Table 1 The demographic characteristics of the study population

From: The association between waist circumference and adult asthma attack using nationally representative samples

 

Non-asthma attack N = 3968

Asthma attack N = 1562

P-value

Age (years)

41.0 (28.0, 56.0)

46.0 (32.0, 57.0)

< 0.001

Gender (%)

  

< 0.001

 Female

53.4

68.8

 

 Male

46.6

31.2

 

Race (%)

  

0.263

 Non-Hispanic White

69.2

69.7

 

 Non-Hispanic Black

12.8

13.4

 

 Mexican American

5.6

4.2

 

 Other Hispanic

5.5

5.2

 

 Other Race—Including Multi-Racial

6.9

7.5

 

Education (%)

  

0.156

 Below high school

14.3

14.8

 

 High School

22.6

19.9

 

 Above high school

63.1

65.3

 

BMI (kg/m2)

27.8 (24.0, 33.2)

30.4 (25.2, 36.0)

< 0.001

Waist circumference (cm)

97.3 (85.9, 110.4)

102.6 (89.3, 115.5)

< 0.001

Diabetes (%)

  

< 0.001

 No

90.8

86.5

 

 Yes

9.2

13.5

 

Smoking (%)

  

0.137

 No

51.8

49.0

 

 Yes

48.2

51.0

 

Drinking (%)

  

0.025

 No

90.3

87.8

 

 Yes

9.7

12.2

 
  1. BMI Body mass index