Research Article
Allergic Rhinitis and Its Epidemiological Distribution in Syria: A High Prevalence and Additional Risks in War Time
Table 1
Characteristics of subjects and their demographic data.
| Characteristic | Frequency () | Percentage% |
| Age | | | 0–17 | 21 | 2.2 | 18–30 | 825 | 85.2 | 31–45 | 96 | 9.9 | 46+ | 26 | 2.7 | Gender | | | Male | 247 | 25.5 | Female | 721 | 74.5 | Place of living | | | Damascus | 525 | 54.2 | Rif-Dimashq | 50 | 5.2 | Aleppo | 62 | 6.4 | Homs and Hama | 127 | 14.3 | Al-Jazira region | 5 | 0.6 | Southern Syria | 24 | 2.7 | Syrian coast | 94 | 10.6 | Idlib | 4 | 0.4 | Smoking cigarettes | | | No | 822 | 84.9 | Yes regularly | 146 | 15.1 | Smoking shisha | | | No | 686 | 71.0 | Yes regularly | 280 | 29.0 | Educational level | | | Primary school | 1 | 0.1 | High school | 61 | 6.3 | Intermediate or higher Institute certificate | 767 | 79.5 | Master or PhD | 136 | 14.1 | SES level | | | Intermediate or higher Lower | 24 | 2.5 | Upper lower | 215 | 22.2 | Lower middle | 242 | 25.0 | Upper middle | 466 | 48.1 | Upper | 21 | 2.2 | Employment status | | | Unemployed | 615 | 63.9 | Employed | 348 | 36.1 |
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