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. 2009 Jan 9;7:1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-7-1

Table 4.

Logistic regression predicting metabolic syndrome score

Variable Estimate Standard error Wald P OR 95% CI
Lower Upper
Age 0.032 0.017 3.710 0.054 1.033 0.999 1.068
Race -0.329 0.324 1.031 0.310 0.719 0.381 1.358
Gender -1.772 0.805 4.852 0.028 0.170 0.035 0.823
Years of education 0.013 0.059 0.051 0.821 1.014 0.903 1.138
Nicotine abuse -0.439 0.281 2.441 0.118 0.645 0.372 1.118
Substance abuse 0.418 0.294 2.015 0.156 1.519 0.853 2.704
Alcohol abuse -0.317 0.332 0.915 0.339 0.728 0.380 1.395
MDD -0.274 0.293 0.876 0.349 0.760 0.429 1.349
CAPS 0.011 0.005 4.759 0.029 1.011 1.001 1.022

'Race' reflects the difference in metabolic risk comparing veterans of non-white to those of white ethnicity. MDD, major depressive disorder. 'CAPS' reflects one unit change in metabolic risk associated with one unit change in Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) score.