From: Change in the symptom profile treated as asthma – two cross-sectional studies twenty years apart
Year | Age groups, years | P-value** | Sex | P-value*** | All | ||||||
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20–24 | 25–29 | 30–34 | 35–39 | 40–44 | Women | Men | |||||
Women | 1993/94 | 51.7 | 49.6 | 51.3 | 53.6 | 53.4 | 0.372 | a | a | a | 51.7 |
2014/15 | 55.4 | 56.4 | 68.5* | 62.6* | 65.1* | 0.031 | a | a | a | 62.2* | |
Non-smokers | 1993/94 | 51.2 | 41.1 | 37.6 | 31.9 | 45.4 | <0.001 | 54.6 | 29.2 | <0.001 | 42.3 |
2014/15 | 57.4 | 49.2* | 59.2* | 52.9* | 59.3* | 0.404 | 63.8* | 42.6* | <0.001 | 55.7* | |
Ex-smokers | 1993/94 | 7.7 | 11.0 | 13.5 | 15.7 | 15.6 | <0.001 | 11.2 | 12.7 | 0.261 | 12.0 |
2014/15 | 21.6* | 25.4* | 24.7* | 24.6* | 23.0* | 0.950 | 20.9* | 29.0* | 0.004 | 24.0* | |
Current-smokers | 1993/94 | 41.2 | 47.9 | 48.9 | 52.4 | 38.9 | 0.347 | 34.2 | 58.1 | <0.001 | 45.7 |
2014/15 | 21.0* | 25.4* | 16.2* | 22.5* | 17.7* | 0.273 | 15.3* | 28.5* | <0.001 | 20.3* |