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. 2014 Feb 26;9(2):e89859. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089859

Table 2. Odds Ratios (OR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI) for anxiety symptoms in relation to female gender, age, physical morbidity, depression and alcohol consumption, estimated by multivariate logistic regression analyses.

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5
OR (CI 95%) p OR (CI 95%) p OR (CI 95%) p OR (CI 95%) p OR (CI 95%) p
Gender Female 1.937(1.142–3.285) 0.014 2.302 (1.338–3.961) 0.003 2.282 (1.315–3.960) 0.003 2.440 (1.352–4.404) 0.003 2.818 (1.439–5.519) 0.003
Age, groups ≤80 y 1 (Ref.) 1 (Ref.) 1 (Ref.) 1 (Ref.)
81–85 y 0.937 (0.492–1.785) 0.843 0.876 (0.455–1.687) 0.693 0.772 (0.382–1.562) 0.472 0.801 (0.392–1.634) 0.542
86–90 y 1.144 (0.568–2.304) 0.707 1.043 (0.511–2.128) 0.909 1.055 (0.488–2.278) 0.892 1.229 (0.554–2.725) 0.612
≥91 y 0.254 (0.098–0.658) 0.005 0.257 (0.098–0.677) 0.006 0.338 (0.124–0.923) 0.034 0.373 (0.133–1.047) 0.055
Physical morbidity None 1 (Ref.) 1 (Ref.) 1 (Ref.)
1 2.579 (1.007–6.602) 0.048 2.487 (0.923–6.697) 0.072 2.281 (0.823–6.319) 0.113
2 2.526 (0.939–6.792) 0.066 2.840 (0.995–8.108) 0.051 2.494 (0.849–67.327) 0.096
≥3 3.627 (1.170–11.243) 0.026 3.711 (1.119–12.305) 0.032 3.525 (1.041–11.934) 0.043
Depression No 1 (Ref.) 1 (Ref.)
Mild 4.813 (2.469–9.380) <0.001 4.832 (2.456–9.508) <0.001
Moderate-Severe 7.164 (3.098–16.563) <0.001 7.283 (3.087–17.182) <0.001
Alcohol, units/day 1 1 (Ref.)
<1 1.908 (0.866–4.205) 0.109
2 2.483 (1.030–5.988) 0.043
>2 4.242 (1.189–15.142) 0.026

Subjects with missing value for at least one variable were excluded, leaving 355 subjects for each model.

Model 1, gender; Model 2, gender and age; Model 3, gender, age and physical morbidity; Model 4, gender, age, physical morbidity and depression;

Model 5, gender, age, physical morbidity, depression and alcohol consumption.