Table 4.

Sociodemographic characteristics as predictors for low PTHL

Univariate analyses	OR	95% CI	p value
Agea	1.035	1.014–1.058	0.001
Education
(College/university/post-graduate)	0.755	0.602–0.947	0.015
Monthly income per family membera	0.619	0.420–0.912	0.015
Therapy for DMT2 (Insulin/Insulin and OHA)	0.564	0.343–0.926	0.024
Active excercisea	0.770	0.603–0.984	0.037
Smoking (Non smoker)	0.770	0.603–0.984	0.037
Alcohol intakea	1.429	1.072–1.906	0.037
Source of health informationa
Pharmacists	0.381	0.197–0.735	0.004
Internet	1.848	0.569–6.004	0.307
Other	2.464	1.364–4.453	0.003
Interest in healtha	0.763	0.625–0.931	0.008
Self-estimation of health statusa	1.236	1.007–1.518	0.043
Multivariate analyses	OR	95% CI	p value
Smoking (Non smoker)	0.784	0.616–0.997	0.048
Interest in healtha	0.439	0.255–0.757	0.004
Source of health informationa
Pharmacists	0.301	0.151–0.601	0.001
Internet	0.760	0.258–2.242	0.619
Other	1.471	0.862–2.510	0.157
Self-estimation of health statusa	0.367	0.156–0.863	0.021

^aAge – continuous variable, Monthly income per family member – ordered variable (< 40,000 RSD, 40,000–60,000 RSD, > 60,000 RSD 1 to 3), Active exercise – ordered variable (never, less than once a week, 1–2 times a week, 3 and more times a week were coded from 1 to 4), Smoking – ordered variable (smoker and non-smoker were ordered from 1–3), Alcohol intake – ordered variable (never, once a month, 2 or more times a month were ordered from 1–3), Source of health information – information received from doctors represented reference group, information received from Pharmacists, Internet and Other are coded 1,2 and 3 respectively, Interest in health – ordered variable (Not interested/Little, Medium and Much and very interested were ordered from 1–4), Self-estimation of health status (Bad, Good and very good were ordered from 1–3). Other Multivariate analyses were performed with significant predictors from univariate analyses