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Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Oct 6;135(1):228–235. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.07.053

Table 2.

Summary of association testing of ethnicity in GALA II asthma cases with pre-bronchodilator and post-bronchodilator measures of FEV1 and FVC. Puerto Rican and other Latino groups are compared with Mexicans (reference group).

		Unadjusted by African ancestry				Adjusted by African and Native American ancestry

		Pre-bronchodilator		Post-bronchodilator		Pre-bronchodilator		Post-bronchodilator
Measurement	Group	Effect ± SE^a (ml)	p-value^a	Effect ± SE^a (ml)	p-value^a	Effect ± SE^a (ml)	p-value^a	Effect ± SE^a (ml)	p-value^a
FEV₁	Other Latinos	−82±28	0.009	−62±28	0.026	−24±31	0.444	−3±31	0.923
	Puerto Ricans	−143±38	1.5×10⁻⁴	−121±37	0.001	−75±44	0.091	−53±44	0.225
FVC	Other Latinos	−100±32	0.002	−91±33	0.006	−25±36	0.477	−10±4	0.788
	Puerto Ricans	−134±43	0.002	−127±44	0.004	−45±50	0.370	−30±52	0.566

Adjusted for age, sex, height, height squared, use of controller medication and recruitment region as covariates.

p-values≤0.05 are in bold.