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. 2015 Apr 15;14:37. doi: 10.1186/s12940-015-0023-x

Table 2.

The risk of asthma and current wheeze in relation to frequency of indoor swimming pool attendance

Currently attending indoor swimming pools
Never or sometime/year (n = 883) Some time/month (n = 1387) Every week or more (n = 323) P*
Physician-diagnosed asthma 9.3% 11.0% 14.7% 0.027
Current asthma 7.9% 8.7% 12.4% 0.065
Current wheeze 9.3% 11.4% 10.8% 0.332

*Test for trend conducted by Mantel-Haenszel test.

Results presented as the prevalence of asthma and wheeze, respectively, by frequency of attending indoor swimming pools.