TABLE 4.

—Odds Ratios (ORs) From Regression Analysis of Health Outcomes, by Social Class and Experience and Perceptions of Racism: All Ethnic Minority Groups Combined

	Experience of Racial Harassmenta		Perception of Discriminationb	Social Classc
Health Outcome	Verbal Abuse, OR (95% CI)	Physical Attack, OR (95% CI)	Most Employers Racist, OR (95% CI)	Manual, OR (95% CI)	No Full-Time Worker, OR (95% CI)	Age, OR (95% CI)	Female Sex, OR (95% CI)d
Self-assessed poor health	1.54 (1.07, 2.21)	2.07 (1.15, 3.76)	1.39 (1.10, 1.76)	1.44 (1.07, 1.94)	2.42 (1.82, 3.21)	1.05 (1.00, 1.10)	1.61 (1.28, 2.01)
Long-standing limiting illness that limits work	1.82 (1.10, 3.01)	1.66 (0.62, 4.44)	0.90 (0.66, 1.24)	2.04 (1.31, 3.18)	3.80 (2.50, 5.78)	1.18 (1.11, 1.25)	1.36 (1.01, 1.85)
High blood pressure	1.45 (0.86, 2.42)	1.71 (0.65, 4.46)	1.66 (1.19, 2.32)	1.71 (1.07, 2.75)	2.25 (1.42, 3.57)	1.18 (1.09, 1.28)	1.24 (0.89, 1.73)
Diabetes	1.52 (0.73, 3.13)	0.97 (0.31, 2.98)	1.12 (0.73, 1.73)	1.37 (0.72, 2.60)	1.76 (0.97, 3.19)	1.40 (1.28, 1.53)	1.03 (0.68, 1.56)
Myocardial infarction risk	1.69 (0.79, 3.60)	1.61 (0.47, 5.58)	0.95 (0.60, 1.49)	1.58 (0.80, 3.10)	2.51 (1.40, 4.50)	1.32 (1.13, 1.55)	1.05 (0.69, 1.60)
Respiratory illness	1.85 (1.20, 2.84)	3.64 (1.83, 7.27)	. . .	1.35 (0.95, 1.93)	1.86 (1.34, 2.59)	0.96 (0.92, 1.00)	1.05 (0.80, 1.37)
Estimated weekly prevalence of depression	2.45 (1.55, 3.88)	2.89 (1.19, 7.03)	. . .	1.27 (0.82, 1.97)	2.16 (1.45, 3.22)	1.07 (1.02, 1.13)	1.26 (0.91, 1.75)
Estimated annual prevalence of psychosis	2.86 (1.69, 4.83)	4.77 (2.32, 9.80)	1.57 (1.02, 2.42)	0.80 (0.45, 1.45)	1.60 (0.94, 2.75)	0.99 (0.94, 1.05)	1.77 (1.16, 2.72)

Note. CI = confidence interval.

^aNo attack = 1.

^bLess than half of employers are racist = 1.

^cNonmanual = 1.

^dMale = 1.