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Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2008 Mar;20(2):198–216. doi: 10.1177/0898264307310464

Table 5.

Predictors of Use of Nonprescription Analgesics, NSAIDs, and Cox-2 Inhibitors, Osteoarthritis Cohort

Correlate	Nonprescription Analgesic	NSAIDs	Cox-2 Inhibitor
White	1.0	1.0	1.0
African American	1.39 (0.96, 2.0)⁺	0.61 (0.41, 0.90)^**	0.71 (0.46, 1.08)
Male	1.0	1.0	1.0
Female	1.07 (0.75, 1.5)	1.19 (0.81, 1.76)	1.81 (1.2, 2.8)^**
Mild-moderate OA	1.0	1.0	1.0
Severe OA	1.01 (0.69, 1.47)	1.13 (0.76, 1.69)	0.86 (0.56, 1.32)
Age	0.99 (0.96, 1.02)	0.95 (0.92, 0.99)^*	0.98 (0.95, 1.02)
Pain scale, 1–10	1.09 (1.0, 1.17)^*	0.98 (0.91, 1.06)	1.08 (0.99, 1.17)
Education	0.93 (0.78, 1.12)	1.07 (0.88, 1.31)	1.06 (0.85, 1.31)
Hard-to-access Rx med	1.0	1.0	1.0
No difficulty	0.91 (0.61, 1.36)	1.08 (0.71, 1.66)	1.15 (0.72, 1.84)
Model χ²	13.8 (p = .05)	18.6 (p = .01)	14.8 (p = .04)

Note: Results from logistic regression models, n = 551.

⁺

p = .08.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.