Table 3.

Optimism, Cynical Hostility, and Fully Adjusted Hazard of Important Disease Outcomes^*

	Incident Myocardial Infarction	Incident CHD	All-Cause Mortality	CHD-Related Mortality	CVD-Related Mortality	Cancer-Related Mortality
Optimism (most vs least)
White and black women (n=97 253)	0.84 (0.73–0.96)	0.91 (0.83–0.99)	0.86 (0.79–0.93)	0.70 (0.55–0.90)	0.76 (0.64–0.90)	0.93 (0.82–1.05)
Whites (n=89 259)	0.83 (0.72–0.95)	0.90 (0.82–0.99)	0.87 (0.80–0.96)	0.71 (0.55–0.93)	0.77 (0.64–0.92)	0.97 (0.85–1.10)
Blacks (n=7994)	1.01 (0.60–1.70)	0.96 (0.70–1.31)	0.67 (0.50–0.90)	0.62 (0.31–1.24)	0.69 (0.41–1.15)	0.56 (0.35–0.88)
Cynical hostility (most vs least)
White and black women (n=97 253)	1.13 (0.98–1.30)	1.04 (0.95–1.13)	1.16 (1.07–1.27)	1.25 (0.98–1.60)	1.14 (0.95–1.35)	1.23 (1.09–1.40)
Whites (n=89 259)	1.14 (0.99–1.32)	1.06 (0.97–1.16)	1.13 (1.03–1.23)	1.18 (0.91–1.54)	1.12 (0.93–1.34)	1.18 (1.04–1.34)
Blacks (n=7994)	0.98 (0.52–1.82)	0.83 (0.59–1.18)	1.62 (1.14–2.31)	2.02 (0.77–5.27)	1.27 (0.67–2.42)	2.42 (1.34–4.39)

^*All models adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, education, income, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol, depressive symptoms, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, HRT use, body mass index, and OS cohort vs CT status.