Change in quality of life over eight years in a nationally representative sample of US adults with heart disease and type 2 diabetes:minority race and toxic stress as keysocial determinants

Table 2 Time-averaged effects of baseline toxic stressors on SRH-declines reported by HRS study participants over the eight-year follow-up

		Odds Ratio (95% CI)	p-Value Race	p-Value T*Race
Race	Black/AA vs White/Caucasian	1.46 (1.25, 1.70)	< 0.0001	0.6575
	Other vs White/Caucasian	1.43 (1.10, 1.86)
	Black/AA vs Other	1.02 (0.76, 1.37)
Toxic stressor types	Intensity of stressor		p-Value Stress	*p-Value TStress**
Everyday Discrimination	0 vs 2+ Day discrimination	0.92 (0.71, 1.18)	0.8484	0.1960
Everyday Discrimination	1 vs 2+ Day discrimination	0.95 (0.73, 1.25)
Lifetime Discrimination	0 vs 2+ Lifetime discrimination	0.67 (0.50, 0.89)	0.0111	0.0950
Lifetime Discrimination	1 vs 2+ Lifetime discrimination	0.83 (0.59, 1.17)
Chronic work discrimination	0 vs 1+ Work discrimination	0.95 (0.51, 1.78)	0.8948	0.4059

Notes: CI confidence interval. Odds ratios in bold are statistically significant. Models adjusted for race, age, sex, education, marital status, BMI, cigarette use, alcohol consumption and interaction terms for race*time, stress*time as well as three -way terms for race*stress*time

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