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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2013 Nov;24(6):913–920. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182a713a8

Table 3. Hazard Ratios from Proportional Hazard Models of Dying by June 2011, the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study, 2006. (n=919, the exam sample; see text for details).

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Ratings HR (95% CI) HR (95% CI) (HR 95% CI) HR (95% CI)

Self
 Poor (1) 6.00 (1.59 – 22.60) 2.33 (0.52 – 10.46)
 Not so good (2) 4.37 (1.34 – 14.23) 2.26 (0.61 – 8.35)
 Average (3) 2.33 (0.71 – 7.65) 1.46 (0.41 – 5.25)
 Good (4) 2.76 (0.80 – 9.57) 1.89 (0.52 – 6.88)
 Excellent (5)a 1.00 1.00
Interviewer
 Poor (1) 11.16 (3.70 – 33.65) 7.06 (2.03 – 24.63)
 Not so good (2) 3.58 (1.45 – 8.85) 2.53 (0.91 – 7.04)
 Average (3) 3.45 (1.51 – 7.89) 2.96 (1.20 – 7.28)
 Good (4) 2.03 (0.89 – 4.61) 1.85 (0.78 – 4.39)
 Excellent (5)a 1.00 1.00
Physician
 Poor (1) 1.53 (0.14– 17.08) 0.83 (0.07 – 10.03)
 Not so good (2) 1.39 (0.32 – 6.03) 0.86 (0.19 – 3.84)
 Average (3) 0.82 (0.19 – 3.42) 0.59 (0.14 – 2.56)
 Good (4) 1.01 (0.24 – 4.27) 0.81 (0.19 – 3.48)
 Excellent (5)a 1.00 1.00

Joint test of ratingsb
 Self p=0.005 p=0.465
 Interviewer p=<0.001 p=0.018
 Physician p=0.431 p=0.641
a

Reference category.

b

The p-value is from a joint Wald test of the four coefficients for the indicated set of ratings.