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Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2009 Jun 1;87(4):2063–2092. doi: 10.1353/sof.0.0188

Table 6.

Sensitivity Analysis of the Effect of Unmeasured Confounding on the Association between Physical Disorder and Obesity among Women

(C = Confounder)		OR Disorder-Obesity Adjusted for Confounder^c

OR C-Obesity^a	Prevalence C in Disorder Category^b	3^rd Quartile	4^th Quartile
1.50	.0	1.57^**	1.78^**
1.50	.2	1.52^**	1.72^**
1.50	.4	1.48^**	1.68^**
1.50	.6	1.45^*	1.64^**

1.75	.0	1.57^**	1.78^**
1.75	.2	1.50^**	1.70^**
1.75	.4	1.45^*	1.64^**
1.75	.6	1.41^*	1.59^*

2.00	.0	1.57^**	1.78^**
2.00	.2	1.48^**	1.68^**
2.00	.4	1.42^*	1.61^**
2.00	.6	1.37^*	1.56^*

Notes:

Odds ratio (association) between the hypothetical confounder and obesity.

Prevalence of the hypothetical confounder in the disorder category under consideration (3^rd quartile or 4^th quartile).

Odds ratios for the association between physical disorder and obesity (3^rd quartile disorder [vs. 1^st] and 4^th quartile [vs. 1^st]) after adjusting for the hypothetical confounder.

The prevalence of the hypothetical confounder is assumed to be 50 percent higher in the disorder category under consideration than in the base category (1^st quartile disorder).

p < .05

^**

p < .01.