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Table 1 Descriptives of study population, and disease prevalence in relation to sex, age, and smoking.

From: Traffic exposure associated with allergic asthma and allergic rhinitis in adults. A cross-sectional study in southern Sweden

   

Current asthma

Rhinitis

Eczema

  

Total n

Allergic

Non-allergic

Allergic

Non-allergic

Allergic eczema

Diagnosis of Hand-eczema

Hand-eczema last 12 months

Sex

Men

4341

106(2.4%)

57(1.3%)

800(18.4%)

266(6.1%)

326(7.5%)

171 (3.9%)

195 (4.5%)

 

Women

4975

218(4.4%)

91(1.8%)

1064(21.4%)

339(8.0%)

813(16.3%)

430 (8.6%)

401 (8.1%)

Ever smoker

No

4306

143(3.3%)

53(1.2%)

941(21.9%)

254(5.9%)

504(11.7%)

245 (5.7%)

248 (5.8%)

 

Yes

5010

181(3.6%)

95(1.9%)

923(18.4%)

351(7.0%)

635(12.7%)

356 (7.1%)

348 (6.9%)

Age

18–19

135

5(5.2%)

7(5.2%)

31(23%)

4(3.0%)

28(20.7%)

5 (3.7%)

3 (2.2%)

 

20–29

1062

52(4.9%)

19(1.8%)

284(26.7%)

53(5.0%)

230(21.7%)

59 (5.6%)

80 (7.5%)

 

30–39

2045

92(4.5%)

21(1.0%)

520(25.4%)

106(5.2%)

306(15.0%)

141 (6.9%)

166 (8.1%)

 

40–49

1887

61(3.2%)

24(1.3%)

407(21.6%)

118(6.3%)

236(12.5%)

131 (6.9%)

132 (7.0%)

 

50–59

2123

62(2.9%)

31(1.5%)

344(16.2%)

166(7.8%)

207(9.8%)

151 (7.1%)

134 (6.3%)

 

60–69

1586

38(2.4%)

33(2.1%)

21813.7%)

122(7.7%)

112(7.1%)

94 (5.9%)

71 (4.5%)

 

70–77

478

14(2.9%)

13(2.7%)

60(12.6%)

36(7.5%)

20(4.2%)

20 (4.2%)

10 (2.1%)