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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2012 Apr 21;23(6):897–906. doi: 10.1007/s10552-012-9960-7

Table 4.

Prevalence odds ratios (OR) for antibodies to CagA+ H. pylori in relation to joint individual- and neighborhood-level education, among a sample of 665 participants in the Southern Community Cohort Study recruited from 12 southeastern states between 2002 and 2004

Neighborhood education level	Individual education level
	Less than high school		High school/GED or more
	OR^a	95 % CI	OR^a	95 % CI
Percent adults ≥25 years completed high school
<62.7 %	1.00	Reference	0.37	0.14, 0.97
62.7–<75.9 %	0.83	0.27, 2.61	0.25	0.10, 0.63
≥75.9 %	1.08	0.24, 4.84	0.16	0.07, 0.40

Adjusted for African ancestry and sex, as well as participant age and duration of residency in the current home as reported during the baseline interview