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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Indoor Air. 2019 Nov 22;30(1):88–97. doi: 10.1111/ina.12610

Table 5:

Odds ratio for the relationship between intervention, visits and asthma symptoms in the LEIP Study.


Night wheeze or cough
Daytime Wheeze
Daytime Cough
Total Symptom Score
OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P
Visit a - 0.65 (0.29, 1.47) 0.30 1.12 (0.67, 1.87) 0.64 0.69 (0.34, 1.39) 0.30
Intervention a - 2.05 (0.69, 6.04) 0.20 2.48 (0.94, 6.57) 0.07 1.75 (0.58, 5.22) 0.32

Air Endotoxin Reduction 0.72 (0.20, 2.50) 0.61 1.57 (0.48, 5.18) 0.46 1.12 (0.32, 3.88) 0.86 0.84 (0.19, 3.75) 0.82

Endotoxin Load Reduction

 Overall 0.62 (0.42, 0.91) 0.014 0.58 (0.37, 0.92) 0.02 0.62 (0.40, 0.95) 0.03 0.52 (0.29, 0.92) 0.02

 CBB 0.20 (0.03, 1.18) 0.22 0.13 (0.04, 0.46) 0.002 0.26 (0.11, 0.71) 0.002 0.14 (0.04, 0.46) 0.001

 CBF 0.29 (0.09, 0.92) 0.036 0.45 (0.19, 1.06) 0.07 0.23 (0.10, 0.57) 0.001 0.15 (0.05, 0.48) 0.001

 PAF 0.51 (0.26, 1.01) 0.053 0.60 (0.26, 1.38) 0.23 0.74 (0.43, 1.26) 0.27 0.59 (0.30, 1.15) 0.12

 KNF 1.72 (0.59, 4.99) 0.32 1.25 (0.35, 4.46) 0.73 1.29 (0.49, 3.35) 0.61 1.16 (0.43, 3.15) 0.77

Models adjusted for age and gender of the participants, season of sampling, place sampled in the home, location of the house (farm, non-farm), family income, smoking in the house, presence of central air conditioning, presence of pets in the house, and main heat source.

a

Interaction term for Intervention-by-visit was significant (P=0.049).

Bold indicates significant associations with the asthma symptoms (p-value < 0.05)