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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2010 Apr 29;21(6):848–856. doi: 10.1177/0956797610370161

Table 2.

Level-2 predictors of inflammatory parameters at study entry and over time.

IL-6
Production
Cortisol
Sensitivity
IL-6
Circulating
Predictor Coefficient SE p Coefficient SE p Coefficient SE p
Baseline:
Constant 42.99 17.8 .01 −645 5.00 .01 0.62 0.09 .01
Age −1.33 1.06 .21 0.09 3.43 .97 0.00 0.10 .98
Race 4.31 3.04 .16 2.01 8.53 .81 0.25 0.15 .10
SES 0.41 1.24 .74 0.42 2.29 .86 −0.01 0.06 .99
Exercise 0.68 0.63 .28 0.65 1.23 .60 −0.08 0.06 .13
Alcohol Use −0.02 0.26 .94 0.76 0.56 .18 0.29 0.25 .26
Sleep Quality 1.37 2.68 .61 1.66 6.55 .80 0.11 0.08 .17
Harsh Family −1.04 1.22 .39 −3.65 3.25 .27 −0.08 0.05 .13
Trajectory:
Constant 0.26 0.98 .01 0.01 0.37 .36 0.01 0.01 .29
Age 0.02 0.05 .79 0.04 0.03 .20 0.01 0.01 .45
Race −0.10 0.15 .35 −0.04 0.06 .56 −0.00 0.02 .94
SES −0.12 0.07 .11 −0.05 0.03 .09 −0.01 0.01 .74
Exercise −0.03 0.03 .34 0.01 0.01 .34 0.00 0.01 .97
Alcohol Use −0.01 0.02 .71 0.00 0.00 .99 −0.02 0.02 .31
Sleep Quality −0.35 0.17 .05 −0.44 0.53 .41 0.01 0.01 .39
Harsh Family 0.23 0.09 .01 0.60 0.29 .04 0.00 0.01 .75

Note. In level-1 models, the outcomes were predicted from time, coded in months from study entry, and body mass index. Race is coded as 1 = white and 0 = other. All other variables are grand-mean centered.