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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2010 Apr 22;71(2):274–281. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.033

Table 3.

Estimated odds ratio (95% CI) under ordinal regression models predicting ovariancancer stage at diagnosis

OR (95% CI)

Model I Model II Model III

Stage at diagnosis
  Stage I (ref) - - -
  Stage II 2.8 (0.6, 12.4) 0.5 (0.02, 10.9) 2.4 (0.1, 80.1)
  Stage III 3.9 (0.9, 17.5) 0.7 (0.03, 15.7) 3.5 (0.1, 116.4)
  Stage IV 53.3 (11.1, 255.5)** 10.0 (0.4, 230.4) 48.7 (1.4, 1689.7)*

Age at diagnosis 1.03 (1.01, 1.05)** 1.03 (1.01, 1.06)* 1.03 (1.01, 1.06)*

Black women 1.1 (0.6, 2.0) 1.0 (0.6, 1.9) 1.2 (0.6, 2.7)

Years of education 1.0 (0.9, 1.0) 1.0 (0.9, 1.0) 1.0 (0.9, 1.0)

Currently married 1.5 (1.0, 2.3) 1.4 (0.9, 2.2) 1.3 (0.8, 2.1)

Familial cancer 0.7 (0.5, 1.2) 0.7 (0.5, 1.2)

Age at menarche 0.9 (0.8, 1.0) 0.9 (0.8, 1.1)
LOP
 Low (ref) - -
 Medium 1.3 (0.7, 2.3) 1.2 (0.7, 2.1)
 High 0.9 (0.4, 1.7) 0.8 (0.4, 1.6)

Parity
  Nulliparous (ref) - -
  1 child 1.2 (0.6, 2.5) 1.4 (0.7, 2.8)
 2 children 1.1 (0.6, 2.3) 1.3 (0.6, 2.5)
 3 or more children 1.0 (0.5, 2.0) 1.0 (0.5, 2.1)

Smoking history 1.0 (0.6, 1.6) 1.0 (0.7, 1.6)

Oral contraceptive use 1.2 (0.7, 2.0) 1.2 (0.7, 2.2)

Hormone use, >=5yrs 0.6 (0.3, 1.2) 0.6 (0.3, 1.3)

Genital powder use 1.5 (0.8, 2.7) 1.5 (0.8, 2.9)

Tubal ligation 0.9 (0.5, 1.8) 0.9 (0.4, 1.7)

Hysterectomy 1.8 (0.8, 4.0) 1.9 (0.9, 4.3)

Recommended food score 1.0 (0.9, 1.0) 1.0 (0.9, 1.0)

% Census level poverty 1.0 (1.0, 1.0)

% Medicaid patients 1.0 (1.0, 1.0)

Annual number of patients 1.0 (1.0, 1.0)
*

p<.05

**

p<.01

Note: Model I and II are reduced models and Model III is the full model.