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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of sample

From: Earlier smoking after waking and the risk of asthma: a cross-sectional study using NHANES data

Measure

Smoking within 5 min of waking (N = 1290)

Smoking after 5 min of waking (N = 2791)

p

Lifetime asthma

150, 11.6%

210, 7.5%

<.001

Past-year asthma

115, 9.0%

153, 5.5%

<.001

Past-year asthma attack

60, 4.8%

82, 3.0%

.006

Cigarettes per day

20.0, 1.0–25.0

10, 6.0–20.0

<.001

Smoking duration

29.5, 18.0–40.0

28, 15.0–40.0

.001

Age

46.0, 35.0–56.0

46.0, 33.0–59.0

.969

Sex

  

.753

 Female

561, 43.5%

1230, 44.1%

 

 Male

729, 56.5%

1561, 55.9%

 

Race

  

<.001

 White

812, 63.0%

1541, 55.2%

 

 Black

352, 27.3%

698, 25.1%

 

 Hispanic

126, 9.8%

552, 19.8%

 

Depression

261, 23.5%

388, 16.0%

<.001

Obesity

371, 30.4%

817, 30.8%

.843

Family history of asthma

324, 25.8%

575, 21.1%

.001

Secondhand smoking

895, 92.8%

1460, 75.9%

<.001

  1. Categorical variables are presented as N, valid percentage, and continuous variables are presented as median, interquartile range. p-values are based on chi-square tests for categorical variables, and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests for continuous variables. Bold: p < .05