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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Biodemography Soc Biol. 2014;60(1):21–37. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2014.899452

Table 3.

Ordinal logit models of the associations between social network index and the inflammation burden index

Model 1
Model 1
SNI OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value
All 4 1.00 1.00
(N = 1,075) 3 1.49 (1.08, 2.06) 1.32 (0.95, 1.83)
2 1.69 (1.21, 2.36) <.001 1.43 (1.01, 2.03) .030
0-1 2.35 (1.62, 3.40) 1.81 (1.22, 2.68)
Race
White 1.00 <.001 1.00 .013
Black or Other 1.83 (1.32, 2.54) 1.54 (1.10, 2.17)
Education
<12 years 1.00 .872 1.00 .085
12+ years 1.02 (0.80, 1.30) 1.25 (0.97, 1.61)
Income
Lower quartiles 1.00 .076 1.00 .482
Top quartile 0.79 (0.61, 1.02) 0.91 (0.70, 1.18)
Race SNI
 White 4 1.00 1.00
 (N = 918) 3 1.41 (1.00, 1.99) 1.27 (0.89, 1.80)
2 1.63 (1.14, 2.34) .001 1.43 (0.98, 2.07) .091
0-1 2.21 (1.49, 3.28) 1.69 (1.11, 2.58)
 Black or Other 4 1.00 1.00
 (N = 157) 3 1.71 (0.65, 4.47) 2.08 (0.73, 5.88)
2 1.64 (0.62, 4.32) .248 1.91 (0.65, 5.60) .390
0-1 3.02 (1.01, 9.03) 2.75 (0.86, 8.84)
Education SNI
 <12 years 4 1.00 1.00
 (N = 442) 3 2.25 (1.15, 4.41) 2.22 (1.12, 4.40)
2 2.47 (1.27, 4.78) .017 2.25 (1.14, 4.42) .049
0-1 3.01 (1.52, 5.96) 2.61 (1.30, 5.28)
 12+ years 4 1.00 1.00
 (N = 633) 3 1.30 (0.89, 1.89) 1.13 (0.77, 1.66)
2 1.45 (0.96, 2.20) .007 1.25 (0.81, 1.92) .216
0-1 2.41 (1.46, 3.98) 1.73 (1.02, 2.93)
Income
 Lower quartiles 4 1.00 1.00
 (N = 842) 3 1.49 (1.04, 2.15) 1.28 (0.88, 1.87)
2 1.79 (1.23, 2.60) <.001 1.46 (0.98, 2.18) .041
0-1 2.49 (1.65, 3.76) 1.87 (1.20, 2.89)
 Top quartile 4 1.00 1.00
 (N = 233) 3 1.49 (0.76, 2.93) 1.33 (0.66, 2.68)
2 1.37 (0.670, 2.80) .580 1.20 (0.57, 2.52) .835
0-1 1.74 (0.75, 4.03) 1.45 (0.59, 3.60)

Notes: Model 1 adjusted for age and sex; Model 2 adjusted for all covariates; p values from χ2 test for the group difference across SNI scores of 0–4; inflammation burden index is the sum of the positive indicators of three inflammation markers and ranges from 0 to 3, as shown in Table 1.