Table 3.
Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals)* for the Associations Between Positive Child Psychosocial Factors and Component Parts of the Favorable Cardiovascular Risk Profile
| Favorable cardiovascular risk component | % | Attention Regulation |
Cognitive Ability |
Home Environment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Systolic blood pressure <140 mmHg | 69.6 | 1.0 (0.77, 1.3) | 0.89 (0.67, 1.2) | 1.1 (0.93, 1.3) |
| Diastolic blood pressure <80 mmHg | 68.0 | 1.1 (0.86, 1.4) | 0.87 (0.66, 1.1) | 1.2 (1.0, 1.4) |
| Not using antihypertensive medication | 89.4 | 1.4 (1.0, 2.0) | 1.2 (0.78, 1.8) | 1.2 (0.92, 1.4) |
| Total cholesterol <200 mg/dL | 56.8 | 1.2 (0.93, 1.5) | 1.1 (0.88, 1.5) | 0.98 (0.85, 1.1) |
| Not using cholesterol lowering medication | 92.5 | 1.2 (0.74, 1.8) | 1.2 (0.78, 2.0) | 0.97 (0.74, 1.3) |
| Body mass index < 25 kg/m2 | 29.4 | 1.2 (0.90, 1.6) | 1.1 (0.86, 1.5) | 1.0 (0.89, 1.2) |
| Non-Diabetic | 96.1 | 1.4 (0.85, 2.3) | 1.3 (0.68, 2.4) | 1.5 (1.0, 2.1) |
| Non-Smoker | 72.8 | 1.1 (0.67, 1.1) | 1.2 (0.87, 1.6) | 1.3 (1.1, 1.5) |
*
Odds ratios are interpreted as the odds of having the favorable cardiovascular risk component in adulthood per unit change in child psychosocial factors, adjusted for demographic (age, race, gender, site) and child (born small for gestational age, chronic conditions, blood pressure, body mass index, socioeconomic status) covariates. Home environment models do not adjust for socioeconomic status as socioeconomic factors in part comprise the variable covariates. Significant odds ratios (p<0.05) are in bold.