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Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2010 Dec 23;20(6):969–978. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9813-3

Table 4.

Unadjusted and adjusted differences in mean HRQoL or odds ratio for fair/poor health or >1 reported health condition for black versus white men and black versus white women

Group Unadjusted Adj. for age Adj. for age and
sociodemographics
SF-6 Da Black versus white men −0.020 (−0.052, 0.012) −0.025 (−0.057,0.006) 0.010 (−0.019, 0.039)
Black versus white women −0.063 (−0.090, − 0.036) −0.067 (−0.093, − 0.041) −0.022 (−0.049, 0.006)
EQ-5 Da Black versus white men −0.038 (−0.076, 0.001) −0.045 (−0.082, − 0.007) −0.007 (−0.044, 0.030)
Black versus white women −0.071 (−0.100, −0.042) −0.077 (−0.106, −0.048) −0.028 (−0.062, 0.005)
QWB-SAa Black versus white men −0.011 (−0.052, 0.029) −0.021 (−0.060, 0.018) 0.011 (−0.026, 0.049)
Black versus white women −0.033 (−0.062, −0.004) −0.041 (−0.069, −0.012) −0.002 (−0.031, 0.028)
HUI2a Black versus white men −0.042 (−0.088, 0.005) −0.046 (−0.093,0.000) −0.017 (−0.083, 0.049)
Black versus white women −0.071 (−0.136, −0.005) −0.076 (−0.142, −0.009) −0.028 (−0.098, 0.041)
HUI3a Black versus white men −0.041 (−0.100, 0.018) −0.050 (−0.108, 0.008) 0.018 (−0.039, 0.074)
Black versus white women −0.117 (−0.199, − .035) −0.124 (−0.207, − 0.041) −0.039 (−0.125, 0.046)
Summary HRQoLa Black versus white men −0.023 (−0.057, 0.010) −0.030 (−0.063, 0.002) 0.005 (−0.026, 0.035)
Black versus white women −0.056 (−0.081, −0.031) −0.061 (−0.086, −0.037) −0.017 (−0.044, 0.009)
Fair/poor healthb Black versus white men 1.64 (1.03, 2.62) 2.11 (1.32, 3.38) 1.09 (0.64,1.86)
Black versus white women 2.49 (1.71,3.60) 3.29 (2.25, 4.82) 1.68 (1.07, 2.63)
>1 chronic conditionb Black versus white men 0.84 (0.56,1.26) 1.07 (0.69,1.66) 0.71 (0.45,1.13)
Black versus white women 1.31 (0.94, 1.83) 1.63 (1.12, 2.38) 1.04 (0.68,1.59)

Differences that are significantly different from 0 and odds ratios that are significantly different from 1 at p < 0.05 are bolded

a

Difference in mean with 95% confidence interval

b

Odds ratio with 95% confidence interval