The Association Between Allergy Skin Testing, Atopic Respiratory Conditions, and Stroke Mortality in Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults

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Table 1.

Characteristics of participants ≥45 Years of Age in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II Mortality Study at Baseline*

* This excludes individuals with a history of myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or stroke.
LDL, low-density lipoprotein.

Table 2.

Cox Proportional Hazards Models for Risk of Fatal Stroke in Participants with Positive Allergy Skin Testing, a History of Respiratory Atopy, or Both*

	Hazard Ratio	95% CI
Positive allergy skin testing
Age-adjusted model
No	1.00	—
Yes	1.45	0.93–2.25
Fully adjusted model^†
No	1.00	—
Yes	1.56	1.01–2.40
History of respiratory atopy
Age adjusted model
No	1.00	—
Yes	1.45	0.76–2.80
Fully adjusted Model^†
No	1.00	—
Yes	1.52	0.80–2.92
Positive allergy skin testing and a history of respiratory atopy
Age adjusted model
No	1.00	—
Yes	2.11	1.02–4.37
Fully adjusted model^†
No	1.00	—
Yes	2.31	1.13–4.73

* This excludes individuals with a history of myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or stroke. A history of respiratory atopy was defined as having been diagnosed by a physician with asthma, hay fever, or both at any time in the past.
† Adjusted for age, sex, race, smoking status, diabetes, hypertension, body mass index, alcohol consumption, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥160 mg/dL.