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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Jan 17;68(4):699–707. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.010

TABLE 4.

Gross and net associations of individual infections with health outcomes: children age 6–16, NHANES III.

Asthma/Chronic Bronchitis Height (age-specific z-scores)
Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2
H. pylori 0.15 (0.34) 0.21 (0.36) −0.13 (0.09) −0.09 (0.08)
CMV 0.19 (0.18) 0.25 (0.20) −0.12** (0.05) −0.04 (0.05)
HSV-1 0.19 (0.21) 0.25 (0.23) −0.13 (0.11) −0.01 (0.11)
HAV 0.38 (0.26) 0.49* (0.28) −0.45*** (0.11) −0.33*** (0.10)
HBV 0.62 (0.55) 0.70 (0.45) −0.42 (0.26) −0.25 (0.25)
***

p<0.01,

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1

Shown are coefficients and standard errors.

Note: Each coefficient reflects results from a separate regression model. Model 1 adjusts for age and gender. Model 2 adjusts for age, gender, race, household size, family income, education of the household head, and region. Results for asthma were estimated using logistic regression. Results for height were estimated using OLS. All models were adjusted for sampling design. H. pylori=Helicobacter pylori, CMV=cytomegalovirus, HSV-1= Herpes simplex virus type 1, HAV=Hepatitis A virus, HBV=Hepatitis B virus.