Table 1 Prevalence of self-reported childhood eczema and/or asthma and/or rhino-conjunctivitis in 2008 with respect to 1-year prevalence of hand eczema and gender in the groups HX9508 (1-year prevalence of hand eczema 1995 and 2008), HX95 (1-year prevalence of hand eczema only 1995), HX08 (1-year prevalence of hand eczema only 2008) and NoHX (never having had hand eczema)
From: Prevalence, incidence and predictive factors for hand eczema in young adults – a follow-up study
The 2008 questionnaire | Group HX9508 | Group HX95 | Group HX08 | Group NoHX | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
“Did you have eczema in your childhood?” (n = 1325, 100%) | Females n (%) | Males n (%) | Total n (%) | Females n (%) | Males n (%) | Total n (%) | Females n (%) | Males n (%) | Total n (%) | Females n (%) | Males n (%) | Total n (%) |
“No” (n = 792, 59.8%) | 10 (16.1) | 3 (14.3) | 13 (15.7) | 19 (39.6) | 6 (27.3) | 25 (35.7) | 38 (33.9) | 14 (31.1) | 52 (33.1) | 349 (66.5) | 353 (72.0) | 702 (69.2) |
“Yes” (n = 400, 30.2%) | 48 (77.4) a> | 15 (71.4) a> | 63 (75.9) b> | 22 (45.8) a> | 14 (63.6) a> | 36 (51.4) b> | 63 (56.3) a> | 23 (51.1) a> | 86 (54.8) b> | 140 (26.7) a<, c> | 75 (15.3) a< | 215 (21.2) b< |
“I do not know” (n = 133, 10.0%) | 4 (6.5) | 3 (14.3) | 7 (8.4) | 7 (14.6) | 2 (9.1) | 9 (12.9) | 11 (9.8) | 8 (17.8) | 19 (12.1) | 36 (6.9) | 62 (12.7) | 98 (6.6) |
“Have you ever had asthma?”(n = 1326) | ||||||||||||
“No” (n = 1082, 81.6%) | 37 (59.7) | 15 (71.4) | 52 (62.7) | 38 (79.2) | 19 (86.4) | 57 (81.4) | 84 (75.0) | 35 (77.8) | 119 (75.8) | 433 (82.3) | 421 (85.9) | 854 (84.0) |
“Yes” (n = 217, 16.4%) | 23 (37.1) | 6 (28.6) | 29 (34.9) b> | 8 (16.7) | 2 (9.1) | 10 (14.3) b< | 23 (20.5) | 10 (22.2) | 33 (21.0) b> | 84 (16.0) | 61 (12.4) | 145 (14.3) b< |
“I do not know” (n = 27, 2.0%) | 2 (3.2) | 0 | 2 (2.4) | 2 (4.2) | 1 (4.5) | 3 (4.3) | 5 (4.5) | 0 | 5 (3.2) | 9 (1.7) | 8 (1.6) | 17 (1.7) |
“Have you ever had allergic symptoms from your nose or eyes?“ (n = 1306) | ||||||||||||
“No” (n = 664, 50.8%) | 20 (32.3) | 5 (25.0) | 25 (30.5) | 26 (54.2) | 11 (52.4) | 37 (53.6) | 41 (36.9) | 16 (36.4) | 57 (36.3) | 280 (54.2) | 265 (54.9) | 545 (54.5) |
“Yes” (n = 582, 44.6%) | 40 (64.5) a> | 15 (75.0) a> | 55 (67.1) b> | 21 (43.8) a< | 10 (47.6) a< | 31 (44.9) b< | 63 (56.8) a< | 24 (54.5) a< | 87 (55.4) b> | 211 (40.8) a< | 198 (41.0) a< | 409 (40.9) b< |
“I do not know” (n = 60, 4.6%) | 2 (3.2) | 0 | 2 (2.4) | 1 (2.1) | 0 | 1 (1.5) | 7 (6.3) | 4 (9.1) | 13 (8.3) | 26 (5.0) | 20 (4.1) | 46 (4.6) |