Association of stress management skills and stressful life events with allergy risk: a case-control study in southern China

Table 3 Associations of allergies with stressful life events in 4002 Chinese people

Exposure	Odds of allergies (odds ratio, 95% confidence interval)^a
Exposure	Crude	Adjusted^b
Categorical variable
0 total stressful events	1.00	1.00
1 or 2 total stressful events	1.66 (1.43–1.94)***	1.65 (1.41–1.93)***
3 or more total stressful events	3.07 (2.54–3.73)***	3.10 (2.55–3.79)***
Continuous variable
Total number of stressful events	1.27 (1.21–1.33)***	1.27 (1.21–1.33)***
Number of disease or death events	1.96 (1.70–2.26)***	1.95 (1.69–2.25)***
Number of conflict events	1.41 (1.28–1.56)***	1.39 (1.26–1.54)***
Number of life changing or other events	1.27 (1.19–1.36)***	1.27 (1.19–1.37)***

***P < 0.001, indicate significant odds ratios compared with reference. ^aFor models with continuous variable, odds ratios are the odds of allergies with increase in one stressful event. ^bAdjusted for age, sex, education, body mass index, smoking status, alcohol intake and physical activity

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