Table 1.
Demographics of all subjects examined. Data are presented as N (%) for categorical variables and Mean (SD) for continuous variables.
| Characteristics | Total N=463 |
With asthma N=138 |
Without asthma N=325 |
p value‡ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 0.24 | |||
| Female | 242 (52.4) | 66 (48.2) | 176 (54.2) | |
| Male | 220 (46.6) | 71 (51.8) | 149 (45.9) | |
| Ethnicity | 0.01 | |||
| Hispanic | 334 (72.1) | 87 (63.0) | 247 (76.0) | |
| Black/African American | 98 (21.2) | 40 (29.0) | 58 (17.8) | |
| Caucasian/other | 31 (6.7) | 11 (8.0) | 20 (6.2) | |
| Age (years) | 5.8 (1.0) | 5.6 (1.2) | 5.9 (0.9) | 0.06 |
| Age at enrollment (years) | 1.8 (0.7) | 1.7 (0.8) | 1.8 (0.7) | 0.38 |
| Age at diagnosis* | 2.1 (1.4) | 2.1 (1.4) | - | |
| Obese | 0.07 | |||
| Yes | 32 (6.9) | 14 (10.2) | 18 (5.5) | |
| No | 430 (93.1) | 123 (89.8) | 307 (94.5) | |
| Asthma Class | ||||
| Intermittent | 78 (56.5) | |||
| Mild persistent | 26 (14.5) | |||
| Moderate persistent | 26 (14.5) | |||
| N/A | 8 (5.8) | |||
| DBP at enrollment, (mg/L) | 196.8 (27.7) | 192.8 (23.8) | 198.7 (29.2) | 0.04 |
| 25-(OH)D at enrollment, (nmol/L) | 65.9 (24.3) | 67.8 (37.3) | 65.1 (16.0) | 0.43 |
*
asthma first diagnosed per the medical record
‡
Chi-square test for categorical variables and t-test for continuous variables