Table 1.
Characteristics of participating children by asthma/allergy status
| No asthma or allergy symptoms |
Allergy symptoms only |
Asthma only |
Both Asthma and allergy symptoms |
Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | %* | N | %* | N | %* | N | %* | N | %* | P-value | |
| N | 179 | 39.5 | 124 | 27.4 | 37 | 8.0 | 113 | 24.9 | 453 | 100 | |
| Mean age in years (SD) | 4.0 | (0.5) | 3.9 | (0.6) | 4.0 | (0.5) | 3.9 | (0.5) | 4.0 | (0.5) | 0.44 |
| Sex | 0.005 | ||||||||||
| Female | 101 | 56.4 | 69 | 55.7 | 18 | 48.7 | 41 | 36.3 | 229 | 50.6 | |
| Male | 78 | 43.6 | 55 | 44.4 | 19 | 51.4 | 72 | 63.7 | 224 | 49.5 | |
| Ethnicity/National Origin | |||||||||||
| Dominican | 36 | 20.1 | 23 | 18.6 | 13 | 35.1 | 23 | 20.4 | 95 | 21.0 | 0.002 |
| Mexican | 91 | 50.8 | 45 | 36.3 | 7 | 18.9 | 22 | 19.5 | 165 | 36.4 | Referent |
| Puerto Rican | 9 | 5.0 | 18 | 14.5 | 2 | 5.4 | 26 | 23.0 | 55 | 12.1 | <0.0001 |
| Other/Mixed Hispanic | 32 | 17.9 | 22 | 17.7 | 11 | 29.7 | 17 | 15.0 | 82 | 18.1 | 0.01 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 9 | 5.0 | 14 | 11.3 | 3 | 8.1 | 18 | 15.9 | 44 | 9.7 | <0.0001 |
| Other/Unknown | 2 | 1.1 | 2 | 1.6 | 1 | 2.7 | 7 | 6.2 | 12 | 2.7 | 0.0005 |
| Smokers in Household | 0.0008 | ||||||||||
| No | 153 | 85.5 | 90 | 72.6 | 25 | 67.6 | 75 | 66.4 | 343 | 75.7 | |
| Yes | 26 | 14.5 | 34 | 27.4 | 12 | 32.4 | 38 | 33.6 | 110 | 24.3 | |
| Parents with Asthma | |||||||||||
| Neither | 166 | 92.7 | 106 | 85.5 | 27 | 73.0 | 83 | 73.5 | 382 | 84.3 | Referent |
| Mother only | 10 | 5.6 | 11 | 8.9 | 6 | 16.2 | 16 | 14.2 | 43 | 9.5 | 0.02 |
| Father only | 2 | 1.1 | 7 | 5.7 | 3 | 8.1 | 9 | 8.0 | 21 | 4.6 | 0.01 |
| Both | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.7 | 5 | 4.4 | 7 | 1.6 | 0.01 |
| BMI for Age by Sex- Boys | |||||||||||
| <85th percentile | 39 | 50.0 | 32 | 58.2 | 10 | 52.6 | 45 | 62.5 | 126 | 56.3 | Referent |
| 85th–95th percentile | 19 | 24.4 | 11 | 20.0 | 4 | 21.1 | 15 | 20.8 | 49 | 21.9 | 0.79 |
| >95th percentile | 20 | 25.6 | 12 | 21.8 | 5 | 26.3 | 12 | 16.7 | 49 | 21.9 | 0.46 |
| BMI for Age by Sex- Girls | |||||||||||
| <85th percentile | 64 | 63.4 | 48 | 69.6 | 7 | 38.9 | 21 | 51.2 | 140 | 61.1 | Referent |
| 85th–95th percentile | 12 | 11.9 | 12 | 17.4 | 3 | 16.7 | 10 | 24.4 | 37 | 16.2 | 0.25 0.03 |
| >95th percentile | 25 | 24.8 | 9 | 13.0 | 8 | 44.4 | 10 | 24.4 | 52 | 22.7 | |
| Total IgE (IU/ml) | |||||||||||
| <125 | 135 | 75.4 | 100 | 80.7 | 21 | 56.8 | 66 | 58.4 | 322 | 71.1 | Referent |
| 126–249 | 29 | 16.2 | 13 | 10.5 | 11 | 29.7 | 12 | 10.6 | 65 | 14.4 | 0.02 |
| 250–375 | 6 | 3.4 | 3 | 2.4 | 1 | 2.7 | 11 | 9.7 | 21 | 4.6 | 0.006 |
| >375 | 9 | 5.0 | 8 | 6.5 | 4 | 10.8 | 24 | 21.2 | 45 | 9.9 | <0.0001 |
| Sensitized to | |||||||||||
| Cockroach | 26 | 14.5 | 22 | 17.7 | 9 | 24.3 | 33 | 29.2 | 90 | 19.9 | 0.02 |
| Dust mite | 21 | 11.7 | 11 | 8.9 | 7 | 18.9 | 26 | 23.0 | 65 | 14.4 | 0.009 |
| Cat | 5 | 2.8 | 7 | 5.7 | 3 | 8.1 | 18 | 15.9 | 33 | 7.3 | 0.0004 |
| Mouse | 8 | 4.5 | 10 | 8.1 | 5 | 13.5 | 23 | 20.4 | 46 | 10.2 | 0.0001 |
| One or more of the | |||||||||||
| above | 46 | 25.7 | 36 | 29.0 | 16 | 43.2 | 48 | 42.5 | 146 | 32.2 | 0.009 |
*
Percents for total Ns are row percents. All others are column percents.