Table 7.
MENA and Arab immigrant comparisons of crude and adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for current smoking, 2000–2014 NHIS.
| New Research Findings MENA Variablea | Previous Research Findings Arab Nations Variableb | |||
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| Unadjusted Model OR (95% CI) | Multivariable Modelc OR (95% CI) | Unadjusted Model OR (95% CI) | Multivariable Modelc OR (95% CI) | |
| All | ||||
| US-Born NH Whites | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Foreign-born MENA/Arab | 0.70 (0.60, 0.83) | 0.66 (0.54, 0.81) | 0.92 (0.73, 1.16) | 0.64 (0.46, 0.88) |
| Men | ||||
| US-Born NH Whites | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Foreign-born MENA/Arab | 0.93 (0.77, 1.11) | 0.90 (0.72, 1.12) | 1.33 (1.02, 1.74) | 0.96 (0.65, 1.43) |
| Women | ||||
| US-Born NH Whites | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Foreign-born MENA/Arab | 0.43 (0.33, 0.57) | 0.42 (0.30, 0.59) | 0.41 (0.24, 0.71) | 0.28 (0.15, 0.53) |
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) variable includes non-Hispanic White adults born in countries located in the Middle East and Africa.
Arab Nations variable includes foreign-born adults born in Arab Palestine, Bahrain, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank, and Yemen.
Multivariable models adjusts for age, sex, marital status (married as referent), education (bachelor’s degree or higher as referent), employment (employed as referent), imputed poverty ratio (≥200 % as referent), health insurance coverage (yes as referent), comorbidity, citizenship status (citizen as referent) and years in the US (US-born as referent).