Racial disparities in adult all-cause and cause-specific mortality among us adults: mediating and moderating factors

Table 6 Competing risk regression, age, sex and PIR-adjusted vs. full models for direct effect of race on mortality from major causes, NHANES III^a

Abbreviation: CI Confidence Interval, HEI Healthy Eating Index, HR Hazard Ratio, MA Mexican-American, MAR mean adequacy ratio, NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, NHB Non-Hispanic Black, NHW Non-Hispanic White, PIR Poverty Income Ratio
^aValues are the natural log of hazard ratios (HR) and 95 % CI with p-values, taking into account unequal probability of selection or sampling weights. Statistical significance is inferred from a 95 % CI not crossing the value of zero
^bThe age, sex and PIR adjusted model is presented here to be contrasted with the full model
^cThe full model adjusted for the same vector of covariates as in Model 8 (Table 5). Note that the point estimate of the HR can be computed as exp(β) where β = Log_e(HR). The 95 % CI for the HR is computed as exp^{(β±1.96*SE(β))}, whereby SE(β) = (UCL_β -LCL_β)/3.92

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