The association between self-rated health and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein level: a cross-sectional and 5-year longitudinal study

Table 4 Poor SRH after 5 years and baseline hsCRP among those without poor SRH at baseline (n = 587)

	hsCRP
	Lowest tertile	Middle tertile	Highest tertile	p _{for trend}
hsCRP, range (ng/mL)	25–137	140–359	360–1380
hsCRP, median (ng/mL)	84	226	549
No. of subjects	193	198	196
No. of new poor SRH cases^a	22	24	24
Crude OR (95% CI)	ref.	1.07 (0.58–1.99)	1.09 (0.59–2.01)	0.203
Age and sex-adjusted OR (95% CI)	ref.	1.25 (0.67–2.34)	1.45 (0.76–2.78)	0.033
Multivariate-adjusted OR^b (95% CI)	ref.	0.99 (0.51–1.94)	1.10 (0.54–2.25)	0.241

^aThose who answered “Rather poor” or “Pretty poor” after 5 years
^bAdjusted for age (as a continuous variable), sex, alcohol consumption, smoking status, education level, body mass index (as a continuous variable), physical activity (as a continuous variable), psychological stress, sleeping hours (as a continuous variable), medical history, energy intake (as a continuous variable), and SRH at baseline
CI confidence interval, hsCRP high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, OR odds ratio, SRH self-rated health

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