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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2009 Mar;19(3):194–201. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2008.12.006

Table 3.

Adjusted Differences of Allostatic Load by Quintiles of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in the United States Population, 1988-1994.

White Model 1: age, age2, gender US birth Model 2: plus urban location,
education, PIR
β 95% CI β 95% CI
Q1 (Low) 0.301 0.154, 0.447 0.114 −0.055, 0.283
Q2 0.170 0.045, 0.294 −0.004 −0.146, 0.139
Q3 0.194 0.083, 0.305 0.077 −0.043, 0.197
Q4 0.0658 −0.030, 0.162 0.005 −0.093, 0.103
Q5 (High) Reference p trend: <0.0001 Reference p trend: 0.3
Black
Q1 (Low) 0.483 0.269, 0.697 0.400 0.189, 0.611
Q2 0.313 0.081, 0.545 0.256 0.040, 0.473
Q3 0.210 −0.061, 0.480 0.168 −0.097, 0.433
Q4 0.383 0.079, 0.687 0.355 0.060, 0.650
Q5 (High) Reference p trend: 0.0001 Reference p trend: 0.005
Mexican Am
Q1 (Low) 0.400 0.146, 0.654 0.302 0.051, 0.552
Q2 0.311 0.047, 0.575 0.239 −0.016, 0.493
Q3 0.358 0.094, 0.621 0.286 0.037, 0.536
Q4 0.201 −0.103, 0.505 0.159 −0.128, 0.446
Q5 (High) Reference p trend: 0.0001 Reference p trend: 0.01

CI, confidence interval; PIR, poverty to income ratio; US, United States.