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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 24.
Published in final edited form as: Diabet Med. 2008 Dec;25(12):1390–1399. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2008.02596.x

Table 4.

Impact of site on the predictions of cumulative incident metabolic syndrome in middle-age women by ethnicity and education over 5 years of follow-up

Model Statistics Detroit Boston Chicago Oakland Los Angeles Newark Pittsburgh
Ethnicity OR 1.40 0.58 1.42 1.28 1.00 4.78* 1.00
95% CI 0.77–2.53 0.30–1.11 0.79–2.53 0.61–2.71 0.47–2.13 1.13–20.15 —
Education OR 1.39 0.61 1.54 1.39 0.98 2.07* 1.00
95% CI 0.65–1.25 0.32–1.17 0.86–2.75 0.77–2.51 0.53–1.80 1.02–4.22 —

CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

*

Model adjusts for site, menopausal status and age at baseline, baseline smoking, alcohol consumption at visit 1 and baseline levels of individual components of the metabolic syndrome (waist, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, blood pressure, and fasting glucose); reference site is Pittsburgh.