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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the patients with AR (n = 77)

From: Correlations between IL-36 family cytokines in peripheral blood and subjective and objective assessment results in patients with allergic rhinitis

 

Patients with AR

Mean age, years, median (IQR)

24 (17, 33)

Gender, n (%)

 

 Male

33 (42.86)

 Female

44 (57.14)

With history of smoking, n (%)

 

 Yes

24 (31.17)

 No

53 (68.83)

Working environment, n (%)

 

 Indoors

58 (75.32)

 Outdoors

10 (12.99)

 Botha

9 (11.69)

With history of AR, n (%)

 

 Yes

26 (33.77)

 No

23 (29.87)

 Undefinedb

28 (36.36)

Time of AR-related symptoms, n (%)

 

 <1 year

14 (18.18)

 1–<5 years

31 (40.26)

 5–<10 years

19 (24.68)

 ≥ 10 years

13 (16.88)

  1. AR allergic rhinitis, IQR interquartile range. a Patients with AR appear to work indoors for the same amount of time as they do outdoors. b Patients with AR did not know whether they had AR in the past. The data about age that did not conform to a normal distribution was expressed by the median and interquartile range