Table 3.
Prevalence of lifetime and current asthma in WA BRFSS and ACBS, 2006–2009.
| BRFSS |
ACBSb
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lifetime asthma |
Current asthma |
% Current/lifetime | Lifetime asthma | Current asthma | % Current/lifetime | ||||
| BRFSS respondents, n
|
No. | % (95% CI)a | No. | % (95% CI)a | (95% CI) | No. | No. | (95% CI) | |
| All | 92 467 | 13 701 | 14.8 (14.4–15.1) | 9050 | 9.0 (8.7–9.3) | 61.2 (59.9–62.5) | 6099 | 4035 | 63.4 (60.9–65.8) |
| Employed | 46 442 | 6401 | 13.9 (13.5–14.4) | 3928 | 8.1 (7.7–8.4) | 58.1 (56.4–59.9) | 2660 | 1682 | 60.3 (56.8–63.7) |
| Employed with coded industry/occupation | 41 935 | 5833 | 14.0 (13.6–14.5) | 3582 | 8.1 (7.8–8.5) | 57.9 (56.1–59.7) | 2511 | 1531 | 60.6 (57.0–64.2) |
a
Data weighted to account for BRFSS survey sampling.
b
ACBS sample is a subset of the BRFSS sample, all have lifetime asthma (ever been told by a HCP that you had asthma), and agreed to participate in the ACBS.