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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Indoor Air. 2009 Feb 7;19(3):193–197. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2008.00578.x

Table 1.

Demographics and symptoms of entire cohort and those with serum results

Characteristic Entire Cohort (n=274) Subset with serum results (n=146)
Age: mean ± std. dev 27 ± 6.0 years 28 ± 6.4 years
Place of birth
 -Mainland United States 203 (74%) 108 (74%)
 -Puerto Rico 55 (20%) 26 (18%)
 -Other 16 (6%) 12 (8%)
Main language spoken at home
 -English 208 (76%) 107 (73%)
 -Spanish 66 (24%) 39 (27%)
Doctor diagnosed Asthma* n (%) 173 (63%) 92 (63%)
Doctor diagnosed Allergy * n (%) 187 (68%) 96 (66%)
*

The exact wording of the questions were, “Has a doctor ever said that you had asthma?” and “Has a doctor ever said that you had allergy?”