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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 23.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2012 Feb 21;43(5):10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.643700. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.643700

Table 5. Ethnicity-specific Incident Stroke in the Multivariate Model.

Non-Hispanic White US-Born Hispanic Foreign-Born Hispanic

Predictors OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
Separately Adjusted for Each SES Factor
Own Education
 0-12 years 1.00 1.00 1.00
 12+ years 0.81 (0.70, 0.94) 0.48 (0.23, 0.97) 0.77 (0.36, 1.69)
Income*
 1st Quartile 1.00 1.00 1.00
 2nd Quartile 0.79 (0.68, 0.93) 0.52 (0.25, 1.11) 0.44 (0.18, 1.08)
 3rd Quartile 0.62 (0.52, 0.75) 1.09 (0.50, 2.37) 0.92 (0.40, 2.12)
 4th Quartile 0.52 (0.42, 0.64) 0.51 (0.14, 1.78) 0.95 (0.32, 2.78)
Wealth*
 1st Quartile 1.00 1.00 1.00
 2nd Quartile 0.76 (0.65, 0.90) 1.09 (0.51, 2.33) 0.47 (0.18, 1.20)
 3rd Quartile 0.67 (0.56, 0.79) 0.90 (0.42, 1.95) 0.55 (0.21, 1.39)
 4th Quartile 0.56 (0.47, 0.67) 0.69 (0.30, 1.58) 0.65 (0.26, 1.60)

OR of 1.00 denotes the reference category.

*

The income and wealth quartiles were defined from within each racial/ethnic group separately, i.e., Non-Hispanic Whites, US-born Hispanics, and Foreign-born Hispanics.

All models additionally adjusted for age, age-squared, sex, southern birth and parental education.