TABLE 3.
Linear Regressions Predicting Telomere Length (Health Behavior Analysis), Full Sample
| N=2,599 | Model A |
Model B |
Model D |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Coef | SE | p | Coef | SE | p | Coef | SE | p |
| Age | −26.9 | 7.9 | 0.001 ** | −26.3 | 7.9 | 0.001 ** | −28.1 | 8.0 | <0.001 ** |
| Female | 270.5 | 46.3 | <0.001 ** | 277.3 | 46.3 | <0.001 ** | 244.1 | 48.2 | <0.001 ** |
| Black | 64.0 | 49.0 | 0.192 | 98.0 | 50.6 | 0.053 | 107.4 | 51.0 | 0.035 * |
| Education > HS | - | - | - | 125.0 | 47.6 | 0.009 ** | 119.7 | 47.6 | 0.012 * |
| Exercise | - | - | - | - | - | - | −0.1 | 0.3 | 0.717 |
| Obesity | - | - | - | - | - | - | −85.5 | 54.2 | 0.114 |
| Smoking | - | - | - | - | - | - | −131.5 | 47.5 | 0.006 ** |
Notes: All models adjusted for chronic conditions, study site, and telomere batch.
*
p<.05
**
p<.01