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Table 3 Respiratory outcomes among children based on household cooking fuel type

From: Household biomass fuel use, asthma symptoms severity, and asthma underdiagnosis in rural schoolchildren in Nigeria: a cross-sectional observational study

 

Overall (n = 1690)

Biomass fuel households (n = 865)

No biomass fuel households (n = 825)

P value

Respiratory outcomes, n (%)

 Diagnosed asthma

  Yes

37 (2.2)

20 (2.3)

17 (2.1)

0.724

  No

1653 (97.8)

845 (97.7)

808 (97.9)

 

 Possible asthma

  Yes

413 (24.4)

234 (27.7)

179 (22.2)

0.009

  Noa

1240 (73.4)

611 (72.3)

629 (76.8)

 

 Current wheeze

  Yes

156 (9.2)

82 (9.5)

74 (9.0)

0.676

  No

1514 (89.6)

771 (89.1)

743 (90.1)

 

  Missing

20 (1.2)

12 (1.4)

8 (0.9)

 
  1. aChildren with reports of no physician-diagnosed asthma and ascertained to have no possible asthma