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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Transplant. 2011 Nov 4;26(2):E101–E104. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01558.x

Table 2.

Associations of baseline donor characteristics with lack of insurance

Category Prevalence
uninsured
OR (95% CI)a p-Value
Age
  <40 28.4 Ref
  ≥40 16.9 0.5 (0.3–0.9) 0.009
Gender
  Male 24.5 Ref
  Female 21.3 0.8 (0.5–1.4) 0.472
Race/ethnicity
  White 11.2 Ref
  Non-white 30.8 3.5 (2.0–6.3) <0.001
Speaks English
  Yes 18.1 Ref
  No 51.0 4.7 (2.5–8.7) <0.001
US citizen
  Yes 13.7 Ref
  No 53.7 7.3 (4.2–12.6) <0.001
Educationb
  <HS/GED 38.1 Ref
  HS/GED 29.0 0.7 (0.3–1.3) 0.246
  College+   8.6 0.2 (0.1–0.4) <0.001
Current smoker
  No 22.7 Ref
  Yes 22.6 1.0 (0.5–1.9) 0.984
Obese
  No 22.9 Ref
  Yes 22.1 1.0 (0.5–1.7) 0.882
Hypertensive
  No 23.4 Ref
  Yes 19.0 0.8 (0.4–1.6) 0.463
a

Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) compared with reference group.

b

Education levels are less than high school or equivalent, high school or equivalent ± some college, college degree or beyond.