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. 2020 Feb 19;10:7. doi: 10.1186/s13601-020-0310-7

Table 1.

Characteristics of children and their mothers

Subjects
n = 4277
Maternal characteristics
 Age at enrollment, years mean (SD) 31.7 (4.5)
 Parity, nulliparous  % (n) 59 (2526)
 Maternal education, higher  % (n) 59 (2510)
 History of eczema, allergy and asthma, yes  % (n) 61 (2597)
Child characteristics
 Sex, female  % (n) 51 (2181)
 Gestational age at birth, weeks median (2.5–97.5th percentile)a 40.1 (35.5–42.3)
 Birth weight, grams mean (SD)a 3443.1 (566.9)
 Ethnicity, non-European  % (n) 24 (1006)
 Breastfeeding, ever  % (n) 93 (3961)
 Eczema, ever  % (n)a 23 (859)
Eczema phenotypes  % (n)
 Never 76 (3229)
 Early transient 9 (363)
 Mid-transient 6 (259)
 Late transient 8 (333)
 Persistent 2 (93)
Current asthma, yes  % (n)b 5 (203)
Inhalant sensitization, yes  % (n)b 32 (985)
Food sensitization, yes  % (n)b 7 (209)
Physician diagnosed inhalant allergy, yes  % (n)b 12 (447)
Allergic rhinitis, yes  % (n)a 20.6 (734)
Physician diagnosed food allergy, yes  % (n)b 2 (79)
Lung function, Z-scores mean (SD)a
 FVC 0.18 (0.91)
 FEV1 0.13 (0.96)
 FEV1/FVC − 0.12 (0.95)
 FEF75 − 0.00 (0.91)

Values are percentages (absolute values), mean (SD) or median (2.5–97.5th percentile) after imputation. aData was missing and not imputed for gestational age at birth (0.2%), birth weight (0.1%), ever eczema (11.6%), allergic rhinitis (26.9%), and lung function (11.5%). bData on the following outcomes were not imputed for the individual analysis and were missing for: current asthma (9.7%), inhalant (26.9%) and food sensitization (27.1%), physician diagnosed inhalant (10.9%) and food allergy (12.7%). They were imputed for the combined outcome analysis and values are for current asthma (yes) 6% (n = 237), inhalant sensitization (yes) 33% (n = 1394), food sensitization (yes) 8% (n = 336), physician-diagnosed inhalant allergy (yes) 12% (n = 521) and physician-diagnosed food allergy (yes) 3% (n = 105)