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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2007 Nov 26;66(3):790–800. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.10.014

Table 3.

Multivariate logistic regression model to predict worrya about future colon cancer

Variable Odds
ratio		 Confidence
interval		 p-
Value
Health status
     Excellent vs. fair/poor 0.36 (0.21, 0.61) 0.000
     Good vs. fair/poor 0.54 (0.32, 0.90) 0.018
Age 40–59 1.71 (1.19, 2.45) 0.003
Male gender 0.62 (0.44, 0.89) 0.009
Prior polyp diagnosis 1.84 (1.25, 2.71) 0.002

N = 591 with complete data.

a

Worry about colon cancer original scale 0–10 dichotomized due to non-normal distribution at 0–4 = not worried, 5+ = worried.