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Table 1 Patient baseline demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Association between depression and mortality in persons with asthma: a population-based cohort study

Characteristic

Without depression (N = 1601)

With depression (N = 264)

p value

Age (y)

44.6 ± 16.6

46.3 ± 14.1

0.158

Male (%)

45.0

28.6

 < 0.001

BMI (kg/m2)

29.8 ± 7.5

33.3 ± 9.6

 < 0.001

Race (%)

0.101

 Mexican American

4.9

5.5

 

 Other hispanic

4.2

8.0

 

 Non-hispanic white

73.3

67.6

 

 Non-hispanic black

12.0

14.1

 

 Other races

5.6

4.7

 

 Hypertension (%)

33.8

53.0

 < 0.001

 Diabetes mellitus (%)

10.0

18.5

 < 0.001

 CHD (%)

3.6

9.4

 < 0.001

 CHF (%)

3.3

8.2

 < 0.001

 Stroke (%)

3.2

8.4

 < 0.001

 Emphysema (%)

3.9

12.8

 < 0.001

 Chronic bronchitis (%)

18.8

39.3

 < 0.001

 Cancer (%)

10.0

15.6

0.012

 Asthma attack in past year (%)

49.6

61.5

0.007

 EMC visit for asthma (%)

16.4

28.2

0.002

  1. BMI body mass index, CAD coronary heart disease, CHF congestive heart failure, EMC emergency care