Table 3.

Predictors of Asthma Episode

	Crude			Adjusted*
	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P
Overall
Race/ethnicity
White	Reference
Black	1.71	1.45–2.01	<0.001	1.64	1.36–1.97	<0.001
Hispanic	0.78	0.65–0.95	0.01	0.84	0.68–1.05	0.13
Puerto Rican	2.32	1.67–3.22	<0.001	2.40	1.66–3.47	<0.001
Asian	0.74	0.51–1.08	0.11	0.93	0.63–1.36	0.70
Urbanization
Urban	Reference
Suburban	1.02	0.85–1.22	0.83	1.09	0.88–1.34	0.43
Medium Metro	1.02	0.84–1.26	0.78	1.09	0.87–1.35	0.46
Small Metro/Rural	0.99	0.82–1.19	0.89	1.03	0.83–1.29	0.77
Region
Northeast	Reference
Midwest	1.01	0.80–1.28	0.93	1.07	0.84–1.37	0.58
South	0.99	0.80–1.21	0.89	1.01	0.82–1.24	0.94
West	0.82	0.66–1.02	0.07	1.00	0.79–1.26	0.98
Birth outside the US	0.31	0.20–0.47	<0.001	0.34	0.22–0.53	<0.001
Household Poverty†	1.06	1.02–1.10	0.003
Neighborhood poverty‡	1.06	1.00–1.11	0.04	1.02	0.96–1.09	0.50
Hispanics
Urbanization
Urban	Reference
Suburban	0.95	0.63–1.45	0.82	0.89	0.57–1.39	0.61
Medium Metro	1.26	0.87–1.84	0.21	1.08	0.93–1.95	0.12
Small Metro/Rural	0.88	0.51–1.54	0.66	0.87	0.50–1.52	0.63
Household Poverty†	0.98	0.92–1.03	0.4
Neighborhood poverty‡	0.9	0.79–1.02	0.09	0.91	0.80–1.03	0.13
Non-Hispanics and Puerto Ricans
Urbanization
Urban	Reference
Suburban	0.94	0.76–1.15	0.53	1.12	0.88–1.42	0.36
Medium Metro	0.93	0.74–1.17	0.53	1.05	0.81–1.36	0.70
Small Metro/Rural	0.91	0.74–1.13	0.39	1.05	0.82–1.35	0.70
Household Poverty†	1.09	1.05–1.14	<0.001
Neighborhood poverty‡	1.15	1.08–1.23	<0.001	1.05	0.97–1.13	0.20

^*Adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, region, neighborhood poverty, urban/rural status and birth outside the US.

^†1 Unit decrease in ratio of household income to the poverty line

^‡10 percentage point increase in households living below the poverty line