Table 2. Maximum likelihood estimates for allostatic load: Coefficients and standard errors.

	Model A	Model B	Model C	Model D
Age	0.002 ± 0.001†	−0.004 ± 0.001 **	−0.003 ± 0.001 ***	−0.005 ± 0.001 ***
Sex (ref = male)	−0.099 ± 0.021***	−0.761 ± 0.120 ***	−0.070 ± 0.011 ***	−0.402 ± 0.056 ***
Age*sex		0.011 ± 0.002 ***		0.005 ± 0.001 ***
Residence (ref = urban)	−0.000 ± 0.020	0.002 ± 0.020	0.016 ± 0.010	0.018 ± 0.010 †
Married (ref = yes)	−0.001 ± 0.022	0.009 ± 0.022	−0.004 ± 0.010	0.000 ± 0.010
Education (ref = primary school)	0.017 ± 0.013	0.014 ± 0.013	0.013 ± 0.007 †	0.011 ± 0.007
Wealth (ref = wealthiest)	−0.053 ± 0.018 **	−0.054± 0.018 **	−0.023 ± 0.007 **	−0.021 ± 0.007 **
Num. Comorbidities (ref = 0)	0.112 ± 0.008 ***	0.111 ± 0.008 ***	0.056 ± 0.004 ***	0.055 ± 0.004 ***
Current Smoker (ref = yes)	−0.035 ± 0.02 †	−0.045 ± 0.021 *	−0.041 ± 0.009 ***	−0.044 ± 0.009 ***
Drink more than once a month (ref = yes)	0.035 ± 0.02 †	0.028 ± 0.021	0.043 ± 0.009 ***	0.038 ± 0.009 ***
Vigorous Exercise (ref = yes)	−0.145 ± 0.019 ***	−0.145 ± 0.019 ***	−0.044 ± 0.011**	−0.043 ± 0.011 **
Constant	1.172 ± 0.082 ***	1.534 ± 0.104 ***	0.180 ± 0.047	0.348 ± 0.054 ***

Model A: AL defined by clinical cut-points and top quartile with Multiple Imputation (MI): main random-intercept model.

Model B: AL defined by clinical cut-points and top quartile with MI: interaction random-intercept model.

Model C: AL defined by z-scores with MI: main random-intercept model.

Model D: AL defined by z-scores with MI: interaction random-intercept model.

ref, reference. sig:

†<0.1

*<0.05

**<0.01

***<0.001.