Table 6. Rates of the 10 most common conditions in the Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders disease category in individuals with asthma age four years and younger and the corresponding rates in individuals without asthma.

	Health services claims per 1000 person years
	Individuals with asthma	Individuals without asthma
Condition	(95% confidence interval)	(95% confidence interval)
Obesity	8.8 (8.6, 9.1)	4.6 (4.5, 4.7)
Diabetes mellitus	7.3 (7.1, 7.5)	5.6 (5.5, 5.6)
Other metabolic disorders	6.2 (6.0, 6.4)	2.7 (2.6, 2.7)
Other endocrine disorders	4.0 (3.9, 4.2)	2.5 (2.5, 2.6)
Vitamin and other nutritional deficiencies	3.2 (3.0, 3.3)	3.0 (3.0, 3.1)
Unspecified malnutrition	2.2 (2.1, 2.4)	2.0 (2.0, 2.1)
Hypogammaglobulinemia, agammaglobulinemia, other immunity disorders	1.9 (1.8, 2.0)	1.0 (1.0, 1.1)
Disorders of lipid metabolism	0.9 (0.8, 1.0)	0.6 (0.5, 0.6)
Acquired hypothyroidism	0.8 (0.8, 0.9)	0.7 (0.6, 0.7)
Congenital hypothyroidism	0.6 (0.5, 0.7)	0.4 (0.4, 0.4)