Research Article
Obesity, Diet, and Activity in relation to Asthma and Wheeze among Rural Dwelling Children and Adolescents
Table 1
Characteristics of the cases and controls.
| | | Controls
| Cases
| P value |
| | Personal characteristics | | | | | Female (%) | 60.6 | 35.6 | <0.001 | | Parents with > high school (%) | 39.4 | 37.9 | 0.81 | | With allergic disease (%) | 33.2 | 73.6 | <0.001 | | Family history of asthma (%) | 7.2 | 23.0 | <0.001 | | Maternal smoking during pregnancy (%) | 9.1 | 20.7 | 0.006 | | Early respiratory illness (%) | 8.7 | 18.4 | 0.02 | | High tobacco smoke exposure (%) | 51.0 | 49.4 | 0.81 | | Age, years (mean, SD) | 11.5 (3.2) | 11.1 (2.9) | 0.31 | | Weight status | | | | | Actual overweight based on BMI (%) | 29.8 | 33.3 | 0.55 | | Perceived overweight (%) | 7.8 | 9.9 | 0.58 | | Activity levels | | | | | Higher activity level (%) | 77.4 | 79.3 | 0.72 | | Dietary intake | | | | | Regular fast food and/or soft drink consumption (%) | 54.3 | 65.5 | 0.08 | | Regular seafood consumption (%) | 26.4 | 25.3 | 0.84 | | Regular vegetable consumption (%) | 99.0 | 98.9 | 0.88 | | Regular fruit consumption (%) | 99.5 | 98.9 | 0.52 | | Regular milk consumption (%) | 95.2 | 96.6 | 0.60 |
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