*<p>2-sided p-value by Student's t test.</p>†<p>2-sided p-value by chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test</p>‡<p>Includes diabetes, asthma (excluding childhood asthma), COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), chronic bronchitis, cardiovascular disease (excluding hypertension) and conditions possibly causing an immuno-compromised state</p
<p>Chi-square test compared to total COPD; <sup>#</sup>:Two sample t-test; <sup>‡</sup>:Fisher exact...
<p>Abbreviations: RFFT, Ruff Figural Fluency Test; VAT, Visual Association Test; SD, standard deviat...
<p>Data are presented as mean ± SD or numbers.</p><p>Comparison of means between GFR-groups are perf...
#Underlying comorbidities: diabetes, malignancy, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), chronic urinary t...
<p>* Fisher’s exact test, except for median age which was performed using Mann-Whitney U test.</p><p...
∏<p>Presence with any following disease: hypertension, heart diseases, pneumonia, diabetes, asthma, ...
<p>History of atopic dermatitis, asthma, and allergic rhinitis included both present and previous di...
<p>*p-values were based on χ<sup>2</sup> test or Fisher's Exact test.</p>†<p>Underlying diseases inc...
a<p>P is the Probability of t-test or Chi-square (χ <sup>2</sup>) tests. Fisher's exact Chi-square (...
<p><sup>a</sup> Student’s t test; chi-squared test for all other p-values.</p><p><sup>b</sup> Defini...
§<p>Doctor Diagnosis of AO = presence of self reported prior diagnosis of either ever-asthma, or ast...
<p>HF, heart failure; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.</p><p><sup>a</sup>: Fisher Exact ...
<p>a. Diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients who did not use statin before the end of fo...
<p>* ILD = Interstitial lung diseases;</p><p>IPF = idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; CTD = connective t...
<p>*p-values refer to test of equality of means between AMI cases and all controls.</p>∧<p>p-values ...
<p>Chi-square test compared to total COPD; <sup>#</sup>:Two sample t-test; <sup>‡</sup>:Fisher exact...
<p>Abbreviations: RFFT, Ruff Figural Fluency Test; VAT, Visual Association Test; SD, standard deviat...
<p>Data are presented as mean ± SD or numbers.</p><p>Comparison of means between GFR-groups are perf...
#Underlying comorbidities: diabetes, malignancy, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), chronic urinary t...
<p>* Fisher’s exact test, except for median age which was performed using Mann-Whitney U test.</p><p...
∏<p>Presence with any following disease: hypertension, heart diseases, pneumonia, diabetes, asthma, ...
<p>History of atopic dermatitis, asthma, and allergic rhinitis included both present and previous di...
<p>*p-values were based on χ<sup>2</sup> test or Fisher's Exact test.</p>†<p>Underlying diseases inc...
a<p>P is the Probability of t-test or Chi-square (χ <sup>2</sup>) tests. Fisher's exact Chi-square (...
<p><sup>a</sup> Student’s t test; chi-squared test for all other p-values.</p><p><sup>b</sup> Defini...
§<p>Doctor Diagnosis of AO = presence of self reported prior diagnosis of either ever-asthma, or ast...
<p>HF, heart failure; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.</p><p><sup>a</sup>: Fisher Exact ...
<p>a. Diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients who did not use statin before the end of fo...
<p>* ILD = Interstitial lung diseases;</p><p>IPF = idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; CTD = connective t...
<p>*p-values refer to test of equality of means between AMI cases and all controls.</p>∧<p>p-values ...
<p>Chi-square test compared to total COPD; <sup>#</sup>:Two sample t-test; <sup>‡</sup>:Fisher exact...
<p>Abbreviations: RFFT, Ruff Figural Fluency Test; VAT, Visual Association Test; SD, standard deviat...
<p>Data are presented as mean ± SD or numbers.</p><p>Comparison of means between GFR-groups are perf...