Table II.

Participant Demographics and Non-remitting Asthma among High School Youth, YRBS, 2009–2017

	Total		Male		Female
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Demographics	21,789	--	10,323	49.21	11,466	50.79
Sexual Identity (SI)
Heterosexual	19,076	87.43	9,521	92.62	9,555	82.41
Lesbian/Gay	533	2.43	236	1.93	297	2.92
Bisexual	1,494	6.91	282	2.54	1,212	11.15
Not Sure	686	3.22	284	2.91	402	3.52
Race/Ethnicity (RE)
White	11,100	51.15	5,198	50.98	5,902	51.31
Black	2,920	24.02	1,376	23.91	1,544	24.12
Hispanic/Latinx	4,105	17.73	1,944	17.97	2,161	17.5
Additional-Race	3,664	7.10	1,805	7.14	1,859	7.07
Age, years
14 or younger	2,941	10.55	1,342	10.63	1,599	10.47
15	5,627	24.89	2,637	25.03	2,990	24.76
16	5,732	26.98	2,762	26.93	2,970	27.04
17	5,077	24.14	2,363	22.83	2,714	25.1
18 or older	2,412	13.44	1,219	14.58	1,193	12.33
Region
Northeast	9,306	5.49	4,354	5.48	4,952	5.5
Midwest	3,169	32.52	1,469	31.58	1,700	33.43
South	4,928	51.90	2,376	52.81	2,552	51.01
West	4,386	10.09	2,124	10.13	2,262	10.05
SI and RE Intersections
Heterosexual
White	9,906	45.52	4,871	47.95	5,035	42.97
Black	2,546	20.88	1,265	22.03	1,281	19.76
Hispanic/Latinx	3,484	15.17	1,757	16.27	1,727	14.1
Additional-Race	3,140	5.97	1,628	6.37	1,512	5.58
Lesbian/Gay
White	208	0.92	89	0.65	119	1.19
Black	103	0.8	41	0.56	62	1.04
Hispanic/Latinx	124	0.55	54	0.56	70	0.55
Additional-Race	98	0.16	52	0.17	46	0.14
Bisexual
White	691	3.14	116	0.92	575	5.3
Black	184	1.74	42	0.86	142	2.59
Hispanic/Latinx	339	1.34	63	0.37	276	2.28
Additional-Race	280	0.69	61	0.39	219	0.98
Not Sure
White	295	1.66	122	1.47	173	1.86
Black	87	0.6	28	0.47	59	0.73
Hispanic/Latinx	158	0.67	70	0.77	88	0.58
Additional-Race	146	0.28	64	0.21	82	0.36
OUTCOME
Non-remitting Asthma
Yes	14,849	66.71	6,323	59.5	8,526	73.69
No	6,940	33.29	4,000	40.5	2,940	26.31