Table 2.
Logistic models of IADL disability for each (univariate) of the five diseases listed in Table 1 and for the set (multivariate) of those five diseases.
| Disease | Males |
Females |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| univariate | multivariate | univariate | multivariate | |
| CHD | 2.18* (1.28, 3.72) | 2.16* (1.25, 3.75) | 1.32 (0.85, 2.04) | 1.31 (0.83, 2.07) |
| AD | 2.80 (0.11, 64.3) | 2.27 (0.09, 56.0) | 6.65* (1.34, 33.0) | 7.01* (1.43, 34.4) |
| ATS | 1.01 (0.47, 2.17) | 0.79 (0.35, 1.76) | 1.06 (0.59, 1.89) | 1.05 (0.58, 1.91) |
| MD | 2.37* (1.25, 4.49) | 2.18* (1.14, 4.17) | 1.31 (0.79, 2.21) | 1.24 (0.73, 2.11) |
| CRC | 0.84 (0.21, 3.44) | 0.88 (0.22, 3.55) | 1.68 (0.62, 4.52) | 1.57 (0.57, 4.29) |
*
denotes significant estimates
Numbers are odds ratios (OR) and 95% Confidence Intervals in parentheses
CHD=Coronary Hearth Disease; AD=Alzheimer's disease; ATS=Atherosclerosis; MD=Macular Degeneration; CRC=Colorectal cancer
The models are adjusted for age, race, education, marital status, smoking, drinking, body-mass index, rheumatism or arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, and fractures.