Table 2 Adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for associations between joint‐specific hand symptoms and Health Assessment Questionnaire score categories*.

	DIP symptoms	PIP symptoms	CMC symptoms	MCP symptoms	⩾2 hand joint groups with symptoms	No. of hand joints with symptoms
Crude	2.41 (2.01, 2.89)	2.62 (2.20, 3.11)	2.99 (2.37, 3.77)	2.63 (2.19, 3.14)	3.30 (2.68, 4.06)	1.07 (1.06, 1.08)
Adjusted 1†	2.15 (1.78, 2.59)	2.52 (2.11, 3.00)	2.63 (2.08, 3.34)	2.46 (2.05, 2.96)	3.00 (2.42, 3.70)	1.07 (1.06, 1.08)
Adjusted 2‡	1.62 (1.31, 2.01)	1.66 (1.35, 2.03)	1.57 (1.19, 2.07)	1.66 (1.35, 2.06)	1.98 (1.55, 2.53)	1.04 (1.03, 1.05)
Adjusted 3§	1.53 (1.22, 1.91)	1.61 (1.30, 1.98)	1.62 (1.22, 2.15)	1.66 (1.33, 2.06)	1.97 (1.53, 2.53)	With hip symptoms: 1.01 (0.99, 1.03)
						Without hip symptoms: 1.07 (1.05, 1.09)

*HAQ scores (>0 vs 0) or (⩾1 vs <1); †Adjusted 1: Adjusted for age, race, sex, BMI; ‡Adjusted 2: Adjusted 1 and hip symptoms, knee symptoms, and radiographic hip and knee OA; §Adjusted 3: Adjusted 2 and CES‐D score.