Table 3.
Crude and Adjusted ORs and 95% CIs for Risk of Developing Psychiatric Disorders for the 4 Intelligence Subtests
General Knowledge |
Verbal IQ |
Visuospatial Ability |
Mechanical Ability |
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Crude | Adjusteda | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | |
Psychoses | 1.16 (0.97, 1.38) | 0.92 (0.70, 1.22) | 1.14 (0.96, 1.36) | 0.91 (0.70, 1.20) | 1.39 (1.15, 1.66) | 1.33 (1.06, 1.68) | 1.36 (1.13, 1.63) | 1.30 (1.02, 1.65) |
Depressive neuroses | 1.05 (1.01, 1.10) | 0.99 (0.93, 1.06) | 1.04 (1.00, 1.08) | 0.97 (0.91, 1.03) | 1.10 (1.05, 1.15) | 1.08 (1.02, 1.13) | 1.10 (1.05, 1.15) | 1.08 (1.03, 1.14) |
Other neuroses | 1.14 (1.11, 1.17) | 1.08 (1.04, 1.12) | 1.11 (1.08, 1.14) | 0.98 (0.95, 1.02) | 1.12 (1.09, 1.15) | 1.03 (1.00, 1.06) | 1.16 (1.13, 1.19) | 1.10 (1.07, 1.14) |
All neuroses | 1.12 (1.10, 1.14) | 1.06 (1.02, 1.09) | 1.09 (1.07, 1.11) | 0.98 (0.95, 1.01) | 1.11 (1.09, 1.14) | 1.04 (1.01, 1.07) | 1.14 (1.12, 1.17) | 1.10 (1.07, 1.13) |
Personality disorder | 1.27 (1.24, 1.31) | 1.11 (1.06, 1.16) | 1.25 (1.22, 1.29) | 1.06 (1.01, 1.11) | 1.24 (1.20, 1.27) | 1.08 (1.04, 1.12) | 1.25 (1.21, 1.29) | 1.09 (1.05, 1.13) |
Alcoholism | 1.57 (1.45, 1.69) | 1.39 (1.22, 1.57) | 1.44 (1.33, 1.55) | 0.98 (0.87, 1.10) | 1.36 (1.25, 1.47) | 1.02 (0.94, 1.12) | 1.52 (1.40, 1.65) | 1.23 (1.11, 1.36) |
Drug dependence | 1.14 (1.08, 1.21) | 1.01 (0.93, 1.11) | 1.14 (1.07, 1.20) | 1.03 (0.93, 1.11) | 1.08 (1.02, 1.14) | 0.94 (0.87, 1.01) | 1.26 (1.19, 1.33) | 1.26 (1.17, 1.36) |
Other diagnoses | 1.30 (1.25, 1.34) | 1.15 (1.08, 1.21) | 1.29 (1.25, 1.34) | 1.13 (1.07, 1.19) | 1.20 (1.16, 1.24) | 1.00 (0.97, 1.06) | 1.23 (1.19, 1.27) | 1.05 (1.00, 1.09) |
Note: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence.
Adjusted for the three other subtests. An OR of x is interpreted as the increase in risk for each successive IQ category. Because IQ score is coded on a 9-point scale for each subtest, the OR comparing the lowest IQ with highest IQ subjects is (x)9.