Table 3 Comparison of age at asthma diagnosis of subjects with good* and poor** agreement
From: Agreement between self-reported and registered age at asthma diagnosis in Finland
Helsinki | Western Finland | |||||||||
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Good agreement*: n = 122 | Poor agreement**: n = 75 | Good agreement*: n = 112 | Poor agreement**: n = 32 | |||||||
Age at asthma diagnosis (years) | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | P | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | P |
Time elapsed from self-reported asthma diagnosis | 11.0 | 6.3–21.8 | 28.0 | 21.0-35.5 | < 0.001 | 15.0 | 7.0–23.0 | 26.5 | 19.0-33.2 | < 0.001 |
Time elapsed from registered asthma diagnosis | 10.5 | 5.3–19.8 | 15.0 | 9.0-24.5 | 0.023 | 13.5 | 5.8–22.0 | 12.0 | 6.0-18.2 | 0.429 |
Self-reported age at asthma diagnosis | 45.0 | 35.0–55.0 | 30.0 | 14.0–40.0 | < 0.001 | 43.0 | 29.5–52.0 | 30.0 | 7.8–40.0 | < 0.001 |
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |||
Self-reported age at asthma diagnosis | ||||||||||
- < 12 | 1 | 0.8 | 16 | 21.3 | < 0.001 | 4 | 3.6 | 10 | 31.2 | < 0.001 |
- 12–39 | 42 | 34.4 | 34 | 45.3 | 43 | 38.4 | 12 | 37.5 | ||
- ≥ 40 | 79 | 64.8 | 25 | 33.3 | 65 | 58.0 | 10 | 31.2 | ||