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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2021 Dec 20;51(2):180–186. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12721

Table 1.

Population Characteristics, California Adolescents

Characteristic n1 %
Gender
 Male 357 36.6
 Female 594 60.9
 Other 25 2.6
Race/Ethnicity
 Hispanic/Latinx 486 49.8
 Non-Hispanic White 342 35.0
 Other 148 15.2
Asthma status
 Never diagnosed 780 79.9
 Ever diagnosed, without symptoms 63 6.5
 Symptoms in the past 12 months 133 13.6
Physical activity in the past 7 days
 0–1 days 156 16.0
 2–4 days 447 45.8
 5–7 days 367 37.6
Past 30-day use alcohol
 0 days 795 81.8
 1–30 days 177 18.2
Past 30-day use smokeless tobacco2
 0 days 970 99.4
 1–30 days 6 0.6
Past 30-day use e-cigarettes
 0 days 859 88.1
 1–5 days 58 5.9
 6–30 days 58 5.9
Past 30-day use cannabis
 0 days 816 83.7
 1–5 days 92 9.4
 6–30 days 67 6.9
Past 30-day use combustible tobacco3
 0 days 945 96.8
 1–30 days 31 3.2
Dry Mouth Frequency
 Never 390 40.0
 Occasionally 529 54.2
 Frequently 53 5.4
 Always 4 0.4
1.

Total analytic sample size: N=976; Sample size may be smaller for some variables due to missing data

2.

Includes moist snuff, chewing tobacco, snus, nicotine pouches, and nicotine tablets/lozenges

3.

Includes cigarettes, cigars, and/or hookah