Table 2.

Relative Odds of Depression Syndrome at Wave 4 Predicted by Life Stress and Poor Health Behaviors at Wave 3, the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study, Maryland, 1993–2004

	Model 1				Model 2				Model 3
	Whites		Blacks		Whites		Blacks		Whites		Blacks
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Depression syndrome at wave 3 (referent, no depression)	7.63	4.63, 12.56	12.57	5.21, 30.34	7.75	4.69, 12.80	13.95	5.52, 32.24	7.80	4.71, 12.91	15.94	6.11, 41.59
Sex (referent, male)	3.07	1.79, 5.27	0.99	0.39, 2.52	2.97	1.72, 5.14	1.02	0.39, 2.67	2.89	1.67, 5.01	1.09	0.41, 2.93
Age, years	0.99	0.96, 1.01	0.93	0.88, 0.99	0.99	0.96, 1.01	0.94	0.89, 1.00	0.99	0.96, 1.01	0.95	0.89, 1.00
Education, years	1.05	0.94, 1.17	1.10	0.91, 1.34	1.05	0.94, 1.17	1.15	0.94, 1.40	1.04	0.94, 1.17	1.18	0.95, 1.46
Currently employed (referent, no)	0.60	0.32, 1.12	4.14	1.54, 11.16	0.59	0.32, 1.10	5.11	1.84, 14.20	0.60	0.32, 1.11	5.90	2.05, 16.99
Income (referent, ≥$70,000)	1.01	0.79, 1.30	0.67	0.44, 1.00	1.03	0.80, 1.32	0.59	0.38, 0.90	1.03	0.80, 1.32	0.57	0.37, 0.88
Life events, median centered	1.04	0.99, 1.10	1.01	0.93, 1.11	1.05	0.99, 1.10	1.01	0.93, 1.11	1.00	0.91, 1.09	1.34	1.06, 1.71
PHB (referent, none)					0.90	0.65, 1.23	2.65	1.29, 5.43	0.88	0.64, 1.22	4.38	1.76, 10.88
Life events × PHB (referent, median events and zero PHB)									1.04	0.98, 1.11	0.83	0.72, 0.96
No. of participants	601		341		601		341		601		341
Log-likelihood	−226.99		−84.31		−226.77		−80.10		−226.02		−77.00
Likelihood ratio test	Referent		Referent		0.43a		8.42a		1.51b		6.20b
Chi-squared P value					0.510		0.004		0.220		0.013

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; PHB, poor health behaviors.

^aModel 2 vs. model 1.

^bModel 3 vs. model 2.