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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2009 Mar–Apr;19(2):109–118. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.09.005

Table 2.

Annual Hospitalization Rates per 1000 Woman Years and Incidence Rate Ratios, by Police-Reported Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Status; Dallas, Texas 2004–2005

Police Reported IPVa (N=4760) No Police Reported IPVb (N=28050)
N Rate N Rate IRR (95% CI)
Total Hospitalizations 766 147.1 3831 137.9 1.05 (0.81, 1.36)
 By age (years)
  18–24 380 250.2 1129 183.5 1.38 (0.86, 2.20)
  25–34 254 130.8 1451 142.3 0.93 (0.62, 1.40)
  35–49 132 101.6 1251 106.9 0.88 (0.60, 1.30)
Non-Hispanic Black 429 195.0 1195 148.2 1.23 (1.08, 1.41)
 By age (years)
  18–24 208 294.6 332 198.2 1.49 (1.25, 1.77)
  25–34 138 160.3 360 132.1 1.21 (1.00, 1.48)
  35–49 83 130.1 503 136.0 0.96 (0.76, 1.21)
Hispanic 232 124.8 1710 163.5 0.68 (0.54, 0.86)
 By age (years)
  18–24 133 213.5 638 228.3 0.94 (0.78, 1.13)
  25–34 74 95.9 744 190.8 0.50 (0.40, 0.64)
  35–49 25 64.4 328 105.8 0.61 (0.41, 0.91)
Non-Hispanic White 105 145.0 926 91.8 1.46 (1.19, 1.79)
 By age (years)
  18–24 39 205.3 159 94.5 2.17 (1.53, 3.08)
  25–34 42 135.9 347 97.3 1.40 (1.01, 1.93)
  35–49 24 87.9 420 85.6 1.03 (0.68, 1.55)

Note. IRR=Incidence rate ratio calculated using Poisson or Negative Binomial regression, age-adjusted except age-specific rate ratios; CI=confidence interval. Age-adjusted rates except age-specific rates.

a

Among women residents of Dallas with police-reported adult male-to-female IPV in 2004. Fifteen women were excluded from the denominator due to race/ethnicity coding errors in the hospital file.

b

Among women residents of Dallas without police-reported adult family violence in 2004; 10% random sample