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Table 2 Demographics

From: The clinical burden of allergic rhinitis in five Middle Eastern countries: results of the SNAPSHOT program

Demographics

Screening population

N = 33,486

AR population

N = 1808

AR non-responders

N = 951

AR responders

N = 857

AR responders

Egypt

N = 145

Gulf cluster

N = 234

Turkey

N = 478

Gender n (%)

 Count

33,486

1808

951

857

145

234

478

 Men

19,610 (58.6)

704 (38.9)

413 (43.4)

291 (34.0)

49 (33.8)

106 (45.3)

136 (28.5)

 Women

13,876 (41.4)

1104 (61.1)

538 (56.6)

566 (66.0)

96 (66.2)

128 (54.7)

342 (71.5)

Age (years) n (%)

 Count

33,486

1808

951

857

145

234

478

 18–34

15,959 (47.7)

856 (47.3)

452 (47.5)

404 (47.1)

83 (57.2)

129 (55.1)

192 (40.2)

 35–49

9921 (29.6)

579 (32.0)

296 (31.1)

283 (33.0)

40 (27.6)

83 (35.5)

160 (33.5)

 ≥ 50

7606 (22.7)

373 (20.6)

203 (21.3)

170 (19.8)

22 (15.2)

22 (9.4)

126 (26.4)

Smoking n (%)

 Count

32,612

1771

918

853

145

234

474

 Non-smoker

21,631 (66.3)

1238 (66.9)

650 (70.8)

588 (68.9)

106 (73.1)

162 (69.2)

320 (67.5)

 Current/former smoker

10,981 (33.7)

533 (30.1)

268 (29.2)

265 (31.1)

39 (26.9)

72 (30.8)

154 (32.5)

BMI (Kg/m2) n (%)

 Count

30,522

1700

862

838

143

232

463

 Underweight

970 (3.2)

62 (3.6)

34 (3.9)

28 (3.3)

3 (2.1)

10 (4.3)

15 (3.2)

 Normal weight

11,491 (37.7)

629 (37.0)

286 (33.2)

343 (40.9)

47 (32.9)

80 (34.5)

216 (46.7)

 Overweight

10,885 (35.7)

562 (33.1)

299 (34.7)

263 (31.4)

36 (25.2)

72 (31.0)

155 (33.5)

 Obese

7176 (23.5)

447 (26.3)

243 (28.2)

204 (24.3)

57 (39.9)

70 (30.2)

77 (16.6)

Health system coverage n (%)

 Count

31,672

1742

892

850

143

233

474

 Public

4502 (14.2)

206 (11.8)

140 (15.7)

66 (7.8)

24 (16.8)

40 (17.2)

2 (0.4)

 Private/insured

5224 (16.5)

304 (17.5)

206 (23.1)

98 (11.5)

12 (8.4)

68 (29.2)

18 (3.8)

 Social security

8350 (26.4)

536 (30.8)

118 (13.2)

418 (49.2)

0.0

2 (0.9)

416 (87.8)

 Personal finances

1187 (3.8)

66 (3.8)

45 (5.0)

21 (2.5)

7 (4.9)

14 (6.0)

0.0

 Not insured

12,341 (39.0)

629 (36.1)

382 (42.8)

247 (29.1)

100 (69.9)

109 (46.8)

38 (8.0)

 Other

68 (0.2)

1 (0.1)

1 (0.1)

0

0

0

0

  1. The demographics of the overall screening population (N = 33,486), the identified allergic rhinitis (AR) population (n = 1808), comparing the non-responders (n = 951) and responders (n = 857) to the detailed questionnaire; and the AR responders used to study the burden of disease by country or cluster studied
  2. BMI body mass index
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