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Published in final edited form as: J Geriatr Oncol. 2011 Jul;2(3):200–208. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2011.02.004

Table 3.

Logistic models to analyze the association between receipt of standard treatment and multimorbidity, before and after adjusting for age.

Variable	Model 1^* Adjusted odds ratio (95% Confidence Interval)	Model 2^** Adjusted odds ratio (95% Confidence Interval)

Multimorbidity:
0	Reference	Reference
1	0.99 (0.65, 1.50)	1.04 (0.68, 1.61)
2	0.64 (0.42, 0.97) ^a	0.79 (0.51, 1.22)
3	0.42 (0.25, 0.71) ^b	0.57 (0.33, 0.97) ^a
Race:
All others	Reference	Reference
African-American	1.21 (0.72, 2.04)	0.92 (0.53, 1.60)
Sex:
Women	Reference	Reference
Men	0.90 (0.62, 1.33)	0.89 (0.59, 1.33)
Marital status
Other	Reference	Reference
Married	1.85 (1.36, 2.52) ^c	1.43 (1.03, 1.99) ^a
Cancer Stage:
Local	Reference	Reference
Regional	0.08 (0.06, 0.11) ^c	0.07 (0.05, 0.09) ^c
Cancer Site:
Colon	Reference	Reference
Breast	1.11 (0.79, 1.56)	0.961 (0.67, 1.37)
Age		0.91 (0.89, 0.93) ^c
(continuous)

Model 1 includes multimorbidity, and all other covariates, except age

^**

Model 2 includes multimorbidity, all other covariates, including age

0.05 ≤ p < 0.01;

0.01 ≤ p < 0.001;

p < 0.001; all other statistics not significant at p < 0.05