Table. 3—

Demographics and health characteristics of subjects with asthma by control status

	Diagnosed asthma		p-value
	Not well-controlled	At least well-controlled	p-value
Subjects n	1827	1792
Female	62.5	53.3	<0.001
Age yrs	47.31±15.6	42.85±15.7	<0.001
Age range yrs
18–34	26.6	37.2
35–54	38.9	38.0
>55	34.6	24.8
Employment status
Employed	49.8	63.4	<0.001
Unemployed	50.2	36.6	<0.001
Retired	22.8	16.5
On disability	6.3	2.7
Overweight^#	33.6	35.6	<0.001
Obese^¶	30.4	23.3	<0.001
Current/ex-smoker	70.3	58.7
Experienced the following in past 12 months
Depression	31	18	<0.001
Anxiety	40	28	<0.001
Sleep difficulties	42	35	<0.001
Number of times spoken with doctor in last 12 months	3.15±3.7	1.48±1.9	<0.001
Asthma treatment
Controller medication	64.7	46.2	<0.001
Rescue medication	55.1	48.4	<0.001
MMAS among those treated for a symptomatic condition
0 (highly adherent)	36.4	35.4	ns
1	22.1	24.5	ns
2	17.4	16.8	ns
3	13.9	16.1	ns
4 (highly nonadherent)	10.1	7.3	0.016

Data are presented as % or mean±sd, unless otherwise stated. MMAS: Morisky Medication Adherence Scale; ns: nonsignificant. ^#: body mass index ≥25 kg·m⁻² and <30 kg·m⁻²; ^¶: body mass index ≥30 kg·m⁻². Statistical comparisons were computed using the Chi-squared test for percentages and unpaired t-tests for means.