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Table 5 Effects of Age, Sex and Socioeconomic Position on Diagnoses

From: The prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population undergoing health transition. A 10/66 Group cross-sectional population-based survey in the Dominican Republic

 

Associations with diagnoses (prevalence ratios with 95% confidence intervals)

Diagnoses

Age, adjusted for sex

Sex, adjusted for age

Socioeconomic position (quarters of household assets), adjusted for age and sex

Dementia

(10/66 criterion)

1.08

1.07, 1.10

p < 0.001

0.89

0.69, 1.15

p = 0.38

0.87

0.77, 0.97

p = 0.02

Stroke

MV1 = 6

1.02

1.00, 1.04

p = 0.01

1.45

1.09, 1.93

p = 0.01

1.01

0.88, 1.16

p = 0.88

Myocardial infarction

MV = 35

1.00

0.96, 1.03

p = 0.84

0.77

0.37, 1.60

p = 0.49

0.92

0.66, 1.27

p = 0.60

Angina

MV = 25

1.02

0.96, 1.07

p = 0.58

0.92

0.39, 2.16

p = 0.86

1.18

0.79, 1.76

p = 0.41

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

MV = 3

1.01

0.99, 1.03

p = 0.47

1.31

0.93, 1.84

p = 0.12

0.84

0.72, 0.98

p = 0.02

Hypertension (meets ISH criteria, and/or currently on treatment)

MV = 13

1.00

1.00, 1.01

p = 0.15

0.92

0.87, 0.98

p = 0.006

1.04

1.01, 1.07

p = 0.004

Diabetes (self-reported diagnosis and/or blood glucose of > 7 mmol/l)

0.98

0.96, 0.99

p = 0.005

0.84

0.66, 1.07

p = 0.15

1.13

1.01, 1.26

p = 0.03

Anaemia

MV = 10

1.03

1.02, 1.03

p < 0.001

1.16

1.01, 1.34

p = 0.04

0.85

0.79, 0.91

p < 0.001

ICD-10 depression

1.02

1.01, 1.03

p = 0.003

0.74

0.58, 0.95

p = 0.02

0.70

0.63, 0.78

p = < 0.001

  1. 1. MV = missing values