The descriptive analysis of depressive symptoms and White Blood Cell (WBC) count between the sexual minorities and heterosexual identifying individuals in a nationally representative sample: 2005–2014

Table 4 The association between sexual minority status/sexual orientation groups and depressive symptoms, NHANES 2005 to 2014

	Main Exposer of Interests	Odds Ratio (OR)	Standard Error (SE)	95% Confidence Interval (CI)
Model 1^a	Sexual Minority Status ^c
	No (Reference)	-	-	-
	Yes	2.23***	0.28	(1.74, 2.85)
Model 2 ^b	Sexual Orientations
	Heterosexual (Reference)	-	-	-
	Gay/lesbian	1.71*	0.41	(1.07, 2.75)
	Bisexual	2.48***	0.41	(1.78, 3.46)
	Not sure	2.60**	0.81	(1.40, 4.83)
	Others	1.71	0.76	(0.71, 4.12)

^* p-value < 0.05
^** p-value < 0.01
^*** p-value < 0.001
^a Model 1 was adjusted for sex, age, race, education level, income, smoking status, BMI, WBC, and survey year
^b Model 2 was adjusted for sex, age, race, education level, income, smoking status, BMI, WBC, and survey year
^c Participants were sexual minorities if they were gay/lesbian, bisexual, not sure about their sexual identities, or other sexual orientations

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