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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 May 25;294:352–356. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220473

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of variables in case group and control group

 Patients only has asthma
(Case)
N=5557		  Patients without CRD (control) in unmatched group
N= 43083
Variables Name  Numbers
of patients		   %  Numbers
of patients		   %
 Ethnicity   Hispanic or Latino   1523   27.4%   11616   27.0%
  Not
Hispanic or Latino		   4034   72.6%   31467   73.0%
  Race   White   3467   62.4%   25312   58.8%
  Black or
African		   693   12.5%   5701   13.2%
  Others   1397   25.1%   12070   28.0%
  BMI   Underweight   62   1.1%   741   1.7%
  Normal weight   1115   20.1%   11546   26.8%
  Overweight and obesity   4380   78.8%   30796   71.5%
  Asthma   Has Asthma   5557   100.0%   0   0.0%
  Age status   18–35   1632   29.4%   12178   28.3%
  36–50   1422   25.6%   10401   24.1%
  51–75   2124   38.2%   16435   38.1%
  76+   379   6.8%   4069   9.4%
Comorbidity status
  0–2   4086   73.5%   34376   79.8%
  3–4   967   17.4%   6652   15.4%
  5–6   321   5.8%   1356   3.1%
  7+   183   3.3%   699   1.6%
  Gender
(match)		 MALE   1837   33.1%   20100   46.7%
FEMALE   3720   66.9%   22983   53.3%