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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 17;78(2):470–475. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad598

Table 2.

Unadjusted and adjusted prevalence ratios (PRs) for tetanus seroimmunity among persons aged ≥ 6 years, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2015–2016

Demographic Characteristic Sample Size
(Unweighted)
PR
% (95% CI)
aPR*
% (95% CI)
Sex
Male 2856 1.00 1.00
Female 3054 0.97 (0.96 – 1.00) 0.97 (0.96–1.00)
Age (years)
<65 4839 1.00 1.00
≥65 1071 0.89 (0.86 – 0.93) 0.89 (0.85 – 0.93)
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 1965 1.00 1.00
Non-Hispanic Black 1099 0.98 (0.96 – 1.00) 0.97 (0.95–1.00)
Hispanic 1978 0.95 (0.93 – 0.98) 0.96 (0.94–1.00)
Other 868 0.96 (0.93 – 1.00) 0.98 (0.95–1.00)
Country of Birth
United States 4310 1.00 1.00
Other 1599 0.93 (0.90 – 0.95) 0.95 (0.93–0.98)
Poverty level
At/above poverty level 4076 1.00 1.00
Below poverty 1299 0.97 (0.96 – 0.99) 1.00 (0.97–1.01)
*

Model includes sex, age in years, race/ethnicity, country of birth, and poverty level