TABLE 2—

Ordinal Logistic Regressions of Performance in the Seated Chair Rise and Timed Walk on Number of Children by Gender for Pregnancy and Later Life Ambulatory Limitation: Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE) Data, Southwestern States, 2000–2001

	Seated Chair Rise		Timed Walk, b (SE)
Variable	Women (n = 867), b (SE)	Men (n = 541), b (SE)	Women (n = 867), b (SE)	Men (n = 541), b (SE)
No. of childrena	0.05** (0.02)	−0.02 (0.02)	0.04* (0.02)	−0.02 (0.02)
Always, most of the time, or sometimes incontinent	0.24 (0.16)	0.65** (0.22)	0.24 (0.16)	0.37 (0.22)
Always incontinent	1.77*** (0.42)	0.51 (0.55)	1.92*** (0.42)	0.33 (0.58)
Age	0.48*** (0.07)	0.26** (0.09)	0.50*** (0.07)	0.48*** (0.09)
Nativity	0.12 (0.13)	−0.13 (0.16)	0.01 (0.12)	0.28 (0.16)
Education	−0.06 (0.44)	−0.36 (0.43)	−0.96* (0.47)	−0.45 (0.46)
Diabetes	0.33* (0.14)	0.70*** (0.19)	0.40* (0.14)	0.87*** (0.19)
Stroke	0.24 (0.35)	0.76 (0.43)	0.37 (0.36)	0.96* (0.41)
Arthritis	0.13 (0.13)	0.23 (0.16)	0.27 (0.13)	0.06 (0.16)
Osteoporosis	0.28 (0.19)	1.01 (0.61)	0.51** (0.18)	1.54** (0.59)
Cardiac failure	0.38* (0.17)	0.48* (0.20)	0.32* (0.16)	0.25 (0.20)

Note. Cutpoints for performance in the seated chair rise: Women: best to good −1.03; good to moderate −0.11; moderate to poor 0.59; poor to unable 1.78. Cox-Snell pseudo R² = 0.14. Men: best to good −1.33; good to moderate −0.49; moderate to poor 0.26; poor to unable 1.29. Cox-Snell pseudo R² = 0.08. Cutpoints for performance in the timed walk: Women: best to good −1.20; good to moderate 0.18; moderate to poor 1.44; poor to unable 2.03. Cox-Snell pseudo R² = 0.16. Men: best to good −1.63; good to moderate −0.19; moderate to poor 1.00; poor to unable 1.51. Cox-Snell pseudo R² = 0.09.

^aData from wave 2 of the H-EPESE (1995–1996).

*P ≤ .05; **P ≤ .01; ***P ≤ .001.