Prevalence of Asthma among Norwegian Elite Athletes

Table 1

Characteristics of elite athletes, divided into summer and winter athletes and across sport categories. Results are presented as mean and standard deviation (SD) and sex differences as number and percentage (%).

Variables	Competition season			Sport categories
	Summer (n = 80) mean (SD)	Winter (n = 55) mean (SD)	value	Endurance (n = 64) mean (SD)	Team sport (n = 50) mean (SD)	Technical (n = 21) mean (SD)	value
Age (years)	27 (4.5)	26 (6.1)	0.564	26 (5.0)	27 (4.3)	30 (6.8)	0.016
Height (cm)	176 (8.3)	178 (8.2)	0.953	179 (8.2)	175 (7.8)	176 (8.1)	0.014
Weight (kg)	71 (10.7)	74 (11.4)	0.391	74 (10.8)	69 (8.4)	73 (15.8)	0.054
Sex (♀), N (%)	62 (78)	20 (36)	<0.001	23 (36)	48 (96)	11 (52)	<0.001