TABLE IV.

Disease characteristics among different races in patients with refractory CRS

Characteristic	Race group
	Whites	AAs	Latinos
Nasal polyp*	—	1.58 (1.02–2.68)†	0.72 (0.34–1.40)
Smell loss	—	2.13 (1.16–3.90)†	1.05 (0.47–2.34)
Asthma	—	0.97 (0.56–1.67)	0.62 (0.21–1.23)
AERD	—	2.94 (1.25–6.91)†	1.93 (0.66–5.62)
Atopy	—	0.87 (0.32–2.38)	0.50 (0.19–1.30)
Eczema	—	0.32 (0.09–1.04)	0.66 (0.20–2.13)
Food allergy	—	0.72 (0.33–1.58)	1.45 (0.65–3.24)
LMS, mean ± SD	6.64 ± 6.3	8.88 ± 7.2	6.34 ± 7.1
Regression coefficients (95% CI)‡		2.02 (0.4–4.01)†	1.19 (−2.37 to 2.33)
No. of surgeries, mean ± SD	1.52 ± 1.1	1.64 ± 1.4	1.58 ± 2.1
Regression coefficients (95% CI)		−1.69 (−4.01 to 0.62)	0.52 (−2.97 to 3.07)
Duration of disease, mean ± SD	10.14 ± 11.9	8.90 ± 5.9	9.96 ± 9.0
Regression coefficients (95% CI)		0.22 (−0.10 to 0.56)	0.007 (−0.44 to 0.42)

Values are odds ratio (95% CI) except where indicated otherwise.

^*Odds ratios (95% CIs) of each variable in different races compared with the white group (the largest group) calculated by logistic regression.

^†P < 05.

^‡Regression coefficient calculated in different races compared with the white group (the largest group) by linear regression.