Table 1 Crosstabulation of predictor variables among participants with and without Allergies.

From: Exploring the relative contribution of genetic and external exposomic risk scores to allergies in elderly women

Characteristic

Overall

N = 450

With Allergies

N = 94

Without Allergies

N = 356

Single Predictors

Age

73.88 (2.83)

73.67 (2.58)

73.79 (2.93)

BMI

27.46 (4.43)

27.12 (4.20)

27.55 (4.48)

High SES

367 (82%)

70 (74%)

297 (83%)

Air Pollution Risk Score

Year PM2.5 (µg/m3)

17.32 (2.47)

17.68 (2.47)

17.23 (2.46)

Month PM2.5 (µg/m3)

16.20 (4.27)

17.00 (4.63)

15.99 (4.15)

Year PM10 (µg/m3)

23.23 (2.58)

23.55 (2.54)

23.14 (2.59)

Month PM10 (µg/m3)

22.25 (5.22)

22.97 (5.53)

22.06 (5.12)

Year NO2 (µg/m3)

24.64 (5.77)

25.19 (5.75)

24.49 (5.78)

Month NO2 (µg/m3)

23.56 (7.81)

25.38 (8.44)

23.08 (7.57)

Meteorological Risk Score

Year Temperature

10.86 (0.82)

10.98 (0.82)

10.82 (0.82)

Month Temperature

12.66 (5.18)

11.34 (5.24)

13.01 (5.11)

Year RH

79.79 (1.75)

79.44 (2.02)

79.88 (1.66)

Month RH

77.33 (7.94)

77.50 (7.90)

77.29 (7.97)

Greenness Risk Score

NDVI within 100m2

0.32 (0.08)

0.33 (0.08)

0.32 (0.08)

NDVI within 300m2

0.34 (0.06)

0.34 (0.07)

0.33 (0.06)

NDVI within 500m2

0.34 (0.06)

0.35 (0.06)

0.34 (0.06)

NDVI within 1000m2

0.36 (0.06)

0.36 (0.05)

0.36 (0.06)

Smoking Risk Score

Smoker

11 (2%)

4 (4%)

7 (2%)

Ex-smoker

73 (16%)

19 (20%)

54 (15%)

Second-hand smoking

263 (58%)

63 (67%)

200 (56%)

Pack-years

3.44 (11.84)

2.81 (8.93)

3.60 (12.50)

  1. For continuous variables, Mean (SD) are shown while n (%) are shown for categorical variables.
  2. BMI: body mass index, SES: socio-economic status, NO2: nitrogen dioxide, PM10: particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm, PM2.5: particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm, RH: relative humidity, NDVI: normalized difference of vegetation index