Table 4.
No Asthma (n = 123,391) | Total Asthma (n = 9387) | Mild (n = 7037) | Moderate (n = 2273) | Severe (n = 77) | P-valuea | ||||||
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Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | ||
Total | 0.794 | (0.001) | 0.728 | (0.003) | 0.731 | (0.003) | 0.723 | (0.005) | 0.659 | (0.023) | <0.001 |
Sex | |||||||||||
Men | 0.807 | (0.001) | 0.753 | (0.005) | 0.755 | (0.006) | 0.751 | (0.009) | 0.665 | (0.042) | <0.001 |
Women | 0.783 | (0.001) | 0.716 | (0.004) | 0.719 | (0.004) | 0.708 | (0.006) | 0.658 | (0.027) | <0.001 |
Age (years) | |||||||||||
18–34 | 0.816 | (0.001) | 0.777 | (0.005) | 0.778 | (0.005) | 0.769 | (0.014) | 0.830 | (0.007) | <0.001 |
35–64 | 0.791 | (0.001) | 0.713 | (0.004) | 0.713 | (0.005) | 0.716 | (0.007) | 0.641 | (0.033) | <0.001 |
≥65 | 0.760 | (0.002) | 0.701 | (0.006) | 0.698 | (0.007) | 0.708 | (0.009) | 0.663 | (0.030) | <0.001 |
Race | |||||||||||
White | 0.794 | (0.001) | 0.730 | (0.004) | 0.732 | (0.004) | 0.726 | (0.006) | 0.660 | (0.026) | <0.001 |
Black | 0.782 | (0.002) | 0.722 | (0.005) | 0.732 | (0.005) | 0.688 | (0.012) | 0.638 | (0.054) | <0.001 |
Other | 0.808 | (0.003) | 0.729 | (0.011) | 0.729 | (0.013) | 0.730 | (0.016) | 0.668 | (0.032) | <0.001 |
Smoking | |||||||||||
Yes | 0.747 | (0.002) | 0.661 | (0.007) | 0.668 | (0.007) | 0.640 | (0.012) | 0.665 | (0.034) | <0.001 |
No | 0.803 | (0.001) | 0.745 | (0.003) | 0.747 | (0.003) | 0.743 | (0.005) | 0.658 | (0.027) | <0.001 |
Notes: aStatistical significance was compared between patients with mild, moderate, severe asthma with a 2-sided P < 0.05 using ANOVA.
Abbreviations: SF-6D, short-form six-dimension; SE, standard error.