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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2017 Sep;119(3):238–245. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2017.06.018

Table 1.

Sample characteristics (n= 196)

Demographic variable
Child age in years, M (SD) 8.31 (.87)
Male (%) 53
Caregiver race/ethnicity (%)
  Black 34
  Latino 51
  Non-Latino White 15
At/below poverty threshold (%) 70
Number of people in household, M (SD) 4.70 (1.76)
Asthma Severity (%)
  Mild persistent 56
  Moderate persistent 33
  Severe persistent 11
Asthma poorly controlled (%) 44
Asthma medications (%)
  Inhaled corticosteroid 70
  Long-acting beta agonists 5
AR medications (%)
  Intranasal steroid 11
Antihistamine use (%)
  1st generation antihistamine 18
  2nd generation antihistamine 26
FEV1% predicted, M (SD) 83.9 (12.80)
Variability in FEV1% predicted, M (SD) 14.97 (5.96)
Risk for sleep disordered breathing (%) 49
BMI percentile for age, M (SD) 74.32 (25.22)
Sleep health indicators
  Sleep efficiency (%), M (SD) 86.54 (3.48)
  Variability in sleep efficiency, M (SD) 4.17 (1.87)
  Sleep duration (minutes), M (SD) 554.49 (35.04)
  Mean number of awakenings per night, M (SD) 5.35 (2.42)