Respiratory Symptoms and Asthma in Two Farming Populations: A Comparison of Hutterite and Non‐Hutterite Children
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms in a farming population of Hutterite and non-Hutterite children. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: A population of 830 school-age, farm-dwelling children in rural Saskatchewan that included 83 children residing in Hutterite farming colonies. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey questionnaire was sent to parents of children attending grades 1 to 5 in schools within a grain-growing and mixed-farming region of central Saskatchewan. The questionnaire was used to identify respiratory symptoms, environmental and host characteristics, and reported doctor-diagnosed asthma. RESULTS: The prevalence of asthma in Hutterite children was 2.4% compared with 9.2% in non-Hutterite children. While Hutterite children did not differ from their farming counterparts with regard to the frequency of reported respiratory allergies, they were less likely to be exposed to cigarette smoke and to participate in farm-related activities. In the multivariate analysis, being Hutterite continued to be protective for asthma (odds ratio 0.21; 95% CI 0.05 to 0.89). CONCLUSION: The observed lower rate of asthma in Hutterite children than in non-Hutterite children may be related to both genetic factors and differences in farming and household factors between the two groups. Key Words: Asthma; Children; Farming; Hutterite
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".