Table 1.
Sample summary information from the Social Change, Asthma and Allergy in Latin America (SCAALA) Brazilian cohort.
| Non-eczema |
Eczema |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1010 (88.06%) | 137 (11.94%) | ||
| Age | |||
| <6,0 | 397 (39.31) | 53 (38.69) | 0.947 |
| 6,0 to 7,0 | 339 (33.56) | 45 (32.85) | |
| >7,0 | 274 (27.13) | 39 (28.47) | |
| Sex | |||
| Female, No. (%) | 467 (46.24) | 58 (42.34) | 0.390 |
| Male, No. (%) | 543 (53.76) | 79 (57.66) | |
| Helminthic infection | |||
| Yes, No. (%) | 240 (23.76) | 29 (21.17) | 0.501 |
| No, No. (%) | 770 (76.24) | 108 (78.83) | |
| Asthma symptoms | |||
| Yes, No. (%) | 210 (20.79) | 47 (34.31) | <0.0001 |
| No, No. (%) | 800 (79.21) | 90 (65.69) | |
| Median for African ancestry | |||
| Lower than median, No. (%) | 494 (48.91) | 73 (52.28) | 0.337 |
| Higher than median, No. (%) | 516 (51.09) | 64 (46.72) | |
| Tertiles for African ancestry | |||
| 1st, No. (%) | 330 (32.67) | 51 (37.23) | 0.503 |
| 2nd, No. (%) | 344 (34.06) | 41 (29.93) | |
| 3rd, No. (%) | 336 (33.27) | 45 (32.85) | |
aP-value considering the Chi-Square test.