Table 3.

Multivariate Models for Prevalence of Insulin-Treated Patients Adherent to Recommended Standards of SMBG

	ADA standard for SMBG (≥3 times/day)	Relaxed standard for SMBG (≥1 time/day)
	OR [95%CI]	OR [95%CI]
Follow-up years*	0.90† [0.62, 1.31]	0.85† [0.73, 0.98]
Black (vs white)	0.03† [0.01, 0.55]	0.30† [0.13, 0.70]
Male (vs female)	1.58 [0.55, 4.55]	0.79 [0.41, 1.54]
Age	0.06 [0.02, 0.10]	0.98 [0.95, 1.00]
≤Poverty level (vs > poverty)	3.41 [0.43, 27.1]	0.56 [0.17, 1.80]
<High school degree education (vs ≥ high school degree)	0.23† [0.08, 0.69]	1.22 [0.52, 2.84]
# of MD visits	1.00 [0.93, 1.06]	1.02 [0.98, 1.06]
HbA1c value‡	0.95 [0.81, 1.12]	1.03 [0.92, 1.14]
Any diabetes-related hospitalization‡	10.69† [1.51, 75.85]	0.95 [0.61, 1.47]
Body mass index‡	1.13† [1.02, 1.25]	0.98 [0.93, 1.03]
# of Non-diabetes drug dispensings	0.65§ [0.51, 0.83]	1.32† [1.10, 1.58]

Interaction terms with p > 0.05 were not included in the final model; analyses adjusted for health centers with disproportionately high numbers of black patients

*Based on years 2–5 of the follow-up period

^†p < 0.05

^‡Time varying clinical status and utilization of services covariates based in that year

^§p < 0.001