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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jul 13;75(9):1697–1707. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.003

Table 3.

Age-adjusted cardiovascular disease risk factor proportions by stress quartile.

WOMEN* MEN*
GPSS Hypertension Diabetes Obesity Carotid Plaque Hypertension Diabetes Obesity Carotid Plaque
Q1 0.59 0.13 0.61 0.33 0.58 0.15 0.39 0.38
Q2 0.67 0.17 0.57 0.35 0.62 0.16 0.42 0.36
Q3 0.65 0.19 0.61 0.34 0.64 0.15 0.41 0.36
Q4 0.70 0.19 0.63 0.34 0.64 0.16 0.44 0.33
p for the trend 0.0049 0.0152 0.1609 0.9589 0.1608 0.7484 0.2816 0.2943
NLE
Q1 0.61 0.15 0.60 0.33 0.60 0.15 0.36 0.36
Q2 0.68 0.17 0.58 0.36 0.61 0.14 0.43 0.35
Q3 0.64 0.18 0.59 0.33 0.64 0.18 0.48 0.39
Q4 0.70 0.20 0.68 0.31 0.61 0.16 0.37 0.37
p for the trend 0.0280 0.0471 0.0201 0.3112 0.5311 0.3246 0.0914 0.5260
WSI
Q1 0.61 0.16 0.60 0.34 0.56 0.13 0.41 0.27
Q2 0.59 0.17 0.60 0.30 0.53 0.11 0.42 0.35
Q3 0.58 0.14 0.59 0.32 0.61 0.16 0.47 0.28
Q4 0.64 0.16 0.60 0.28 0.58 0.17 0.34 0.41
p for the trend 0.4561 0.8462 0.9380 0.1032 0.3797 0.1023 0.2707 0.0253

Abbreviations: GPSS = Global perceived stress scale; NLE = Negative life events; WSI = Weekly stress inventory.

*

N = women: 2541, men: 1439 for GPSS & NLE and women: 1590, men: 888 for WSI. The N values for GPSS & NLE and for WSI are given separately because of the variations in the sample size