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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2017 Jun 28;119(2):153–159. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2017.05.025

Table 1.

ACCESS Participant Characteristics

Categorical Variables All (n=199) Boys (n=106) Girls (n=93)

n % n % n %
Maternal Race
 Hispanic 129 64.8 67 63.2 62 66.7
 African American 42 21.1 22 20.8 20 21.5
 White/Other 28 14.1 17 16.0 11 11.8
Maternal education
 >12 yrs 65 32.7 36 34.0 29 31.2
 ≤12 yrs 134 67.3 70 66.0 64 68.8
Child ever asthma*
 No 164 82.4 77 72.6 87 93.6
 Yes 35 17.6 29 27.4 6 6.5
Prenatal maternal smoking
 No 170 85.4 90 84.9 80 86.0
 Yes 29 14.6 16 15.1 13 14.0
Postnatal household tobacco smoke
 No 155 77.9 79 74.5 76 81.7
 Yes 44 22.1 27 25.5 17 18.3

Continuous Variables

FEV1 (L; mean, SD) 1.44 0.25 1.46 0.23 1.42 0.26
FVC (L; mean, SD) 1.58 0.29 1.60 0.26 1.55 0.32
FEF25-75 (L/s; mean, SD) 1.87 0.46 1.83 0.47 1.91 0.44
FEV1/FVC ratio (mean, SD) 0.92 0.05 0.91 0.06 0.92 0.05
z-score of FEV1 (median, IQR) −0.09 −0.79–0.66 −0.13 −0.58–0.61 −0.08 −0.96–0.68
z-score of FVC (median, IQR) −0.12 −0.74–0.64 −0.02 −0.51–0.68 −0.15 −1.03–0.57
z-score of FEF25-75 (median, IQR) −0.12 −0.73–0.63 −0.31 −0.87–0.33 0.29 −0.62–0.96
z-score of FEV1/FVC ratio (median, IQR) 0.02 −0.66–0.64 −0.43 −0.99–0.14 0.59 0.02–1.27
Prenatal negative life events (range 0–8; median, IQR) § 2 1–3 2 1–3 2 1–3
Postnatal negative life events (range 0–8; median, IQR) § 2 1–3 2 1–3 2 1–3
Age at spirometry test (years; mean, SD) 6.99 0.89 6.90 0.78 7.10 0.99
Height at spirometry test (cm; mean, SD) 121.8 7.4 121.9 7.3 121.7 7.6
Birthweight for gestational age z-score (median, IQR) −0.11 −0.79–0.57 −0.10 −0.76–0.72 −0.11 −0.72–0.54
*

Ever diagnosed with asthma prior to spirometry test

Maternal report of smoking and/or whether others smoked in the home at each postpartum interview

Adjusted for age, sex, height, race

§

Assessed using Crisis in Family Systems-Revised (CRISYS-R) survey; multi-item survey summarized into a continuous score