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. 2020 Jan 28;21:31. doi: 10.1186/s12931-020-1295-4

Table 1.

Cohorts included in Asthma BRIDGE. Continuous variables are reported as means with (+/− standard deviation). Binary variables are reported as counts with (percentage of cohort)

GRAAD CAG CARE p-value
N 35 25 58
CACS 13.97 (+/− 8.01) 12.83 (+/− 6.38) 8.12 (+/− 5.16) 5.70E-05
Age 42.94 (+/− 12.70) 38.52 (+/− 13.35) 13.49 (+/− 3.45) 1.30E-29
Sex (# Male) 9 (25.71%) 6 (24.00%) 40 (68.97%) 1.10E-05
Race
 Non-Hispanic White 0 (0.00%) 4 (16.00%) 35 (60.34%) 2.00E-09
 African American 30 (85.71%) 20 (80.00%) 8 (13.79%) 3.70E-13
 Hispanic 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 9 (15.52%) 0.0065
 Other/Mixed 5 (14.29%) 1 (4.00%) 6 (10.34%) 0.43
 Age Asthma Onset 18.25 (+/− 16.22) 5.73 (+/−  7.79) 2.16 (+/− 2.09) 1.50E-11
 Atopy 12 (34.29%) 9 (36.00%) 34 (58.62%) 0.036
 Intra-Uterine Smoke 5 (14.29%) 5 (20.00%) 3 (5.17%) 0.11
 Environmental Smoke Exposure 21 (60.00%) 12 (48.00%) 9 (15.52%) 2.80E-05
 Ever Smoker 13 (37.14%) 3 (12.00%) 0 (0.00%) 2.60E-06

P-values for continuous outcomes are from ANOVA, binary outcomes are from chi-squared tests. CACS: Chronic Asthma Control Score. CARE: Childhood Asthma Research and Education study. CAG: Chicago Asthma Genetics study. GRAAD: Genomic Research on Asthma in the African Diaspora