Appendix Table 1.

Hierarchical linear regression models, adjusted for county- and tract-level effects, with the percentage point difference in cardiovascular disease risk calculated using the 2008 version of the Framingham Risk score, NHANES 1999-2004

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Characteristic	Coef	95% CI	Coef	95% CI	Coef	95% CI
Gender
Male	5.45	(5.10 , 5.81)	5.45	(5.09 , 5.81)	8.2	(6.54 , 9.85)
Female	ref		ref		ref
Age	0.2	(0.10 , 0.30)	0.19	(0.09 , 0.29)	0.19	(0.09 , 0.29)
Age squared	0.003	(0.002 , 0.004)	0.003	(0.002 , 0.004)	0.003	(0.002 , 0.004)
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	ref		ref		ref
Non-Hispanic Black	0.7	(0.38 , 1.01)	0.4	(0.07 , 0.73)	−1.57	(−2.91 , −0.24)
Hispanic	−0.11	(−0.47 , 0.25)	−0.28	(−0.64 , 0.07)	−2.95	(−4.54 , −1.35)
Nativity
US-born	ref		ref		ref
Born outside US	−0.63	(−1.00 , −0.26)	−0.63	(−0.99 , −0.26)	−0.6	(−0.96 , −0.24)
Marital status
Married or partner	ref		ref		ref
Widowed, divorced, or separated	0.05	(−0.22 , 0.33)	0.04	(−0.23 , 0.31)	0.04	(−0.23 , 0.30)
Never Married	0.18	(−0.26 , 0.63)	0.14	(−0.30 , 0.57)	0.14	(−0.31 , 0.58)
Education
Less than High School	1.18	(0.78 , 1.58)	1.08	(0.68 , 1.48)	1.11	(0.71 , 1.51)
High School Graduate or GED	0.53	(0.07 , 0.98)	0.5	(0.04 , 0.95)	0.49	(0.03 , 0.94)
More than High School	ref		ref		ref
Income to Poverty Ratio (IPR)
ratio less than 1	1.5	(0.92 , 2.09)	1.32	(0.71 , 1.92)	1.24	(0.64 , 1.83)
ratio >=1, < 2	1.35	(0.72 , 1.99)	1.21	(0.56 , 1.86)	1.15	(0.52 , 1.78)
ratio >=2, < 3	0.71	(0.26 , 1.17)	0.62	(0.16 , 1.09)	0.55	(0.09 , 1.02)
ratio >=3, < 4	0.88	(0.43 , 1.34)	0.81	(0.35 , 1.26)	0.74	(0.29 , 1.19)
ratio >=4, < 5	1	(0.63 , 1.36)	0.94	(0.57 , 1.31)	0.91	(0.54 , 1.28)
ratio >=5	ref		ref		ref
NSES	-		−0.03	(−0.03 , −0.02)	−0.03	(−0.04 , −0.02)
Gender*Race interaction	-		-
Male, Hispanic	-		-		−1.1	(−1.89 , −0.3)
Male, Black	-		-		−1.43	(−2 , −0.85)
Gender*NSES interaction	-		-
Male*NSES	-		-		−0.03	(−0.06 , −0.01)
Race*NSES interaction	-		-
NSES*Hispanic	-		-		0.05	(0.02 , 0.07)
NSES*Black	-		-		0.04	(0.02 , 0.06)