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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Thorax. 2010 Mar;65(3):258–262. doi: 10.1136/thx.2009.125443

Table 2.

Association between gender, smoking, atopy, asthma and fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO)

Variable FeNO (ppb), geometric mean (SD) p Value*
Gender Male (n=376) 22 (2) <0.001
Female (n=423) 15 (2)
Current smoking Yes (n=198) 14 (2) <0.001
No (n=601) 19 (2)
Atopy Yes (n=324) 28 (2) <0.001
No (n=475) 13 (2)
Asthma Yes (n=155) 29 (3) <0.001
No (n=644) 16 (2)
Rhinitis Yes (n=310) 25 (2) <0.001
No (n=489) 15 (2)
Current inhaled corticosteroid use in patients with asthma (n=155) Yes (n=65) 30 (3) 0.65
No (n=90) 28 (3)
*

Two-sided t test comparing logarithmically-transformed FeNO for each variable.