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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jan 16;105:47–58. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.12.018

Table 3.

Odds ratios: Association between social capital (social support, generalized trust and neighborhood trust) and diabetes and hypertension, ages 30+, National Health Survey, 2009.

Social Support Generalized Trust Neighborhood Trust
(1) (2) (3) (1) (2) (3) (1) (2) (3)
a)Diabetes
Strongly Agree or Lowest Quartile (Lowest Social Capital) 1.35* [1.01,1.82] 1.33 [0.98,1.80] 1.37* [1.01,1.86] 1.06 [0.81,1.40] 1.07 [0.81,1.41] 1.06 [0.80,1.41] 1.24 [0.94,1.62] 1.25 [0.95,1.65] 1.20 [0.90,1.58]
Slightly Agree or 2nd Quartile 1.16 [0.88,1.53] 1.13 [0.85,1.50] 1.13 [0.84,1.51] 0.98 [0.74,1.29] 0.97 [0.73,1.28] 0.91 [0.68,1.22] 1.23 [0.91,1.67] 1.25 [0.91,1.71] 1.20 [0.87,1.64]
Slightly Disagree or 3rd Quartile 1.19 [0.89,1.59] 1.21 [0.90,1.63] 1.15 [0.84,1.56] 0.79 [0.59,1.08] 0.76 [0.56,1.05] 0.74 [0.54,1.02] 1.21 [0.91,1.59] 1.19 [0.90,1.58] 1.16 [0.87,1.55]
Strongly Disagree or 4th Quartile (Highest Social Capital) Ref.
Observations 3589 3470 3416 3600 3480 3425 3651 3529 3474
Log lik. −1360.9 −1315.2 −1268.5 −1362.7 −1315.9 −1267.3 −1387 −1340.2 −1292.5
Chi-squared 241 240.9 232 239 240 230.8 255.3 256.9 245.8
b) Hypertension
Strongly Agree or Lowest Quartile (Lowest Social Capital) 1.10 [0.86,1.40] 1.11 [0.87,1.43] 1.18 [0.92,1.51] 1.01 [0.81,1.25] 1.00 [0.80,1.25] 1.03 [0.82,1.28] 1.03 [0.83,1.28] 0.99 [0.80,1.23] 1.00 [0.80,1.24]
Slightly Agree or 2nd Quartile 0.94 [0.74,1.19] 0.89 [0.70,1.13] 0.91 [0.71,1.16] 0.86 [0.69,1.07] 0.85 [0.68,1.07] 0.85 [0.68,1.07] 1.05 [0.83,1.34] 1.05 [0.82,1.35] 1.05 [0.82,1.35]
Slightly Disagree or 3rd Quartile 1.02 [0.81,1.28] 1.02 [0.81,1.29] 1.05 [0.84,1.33] 0.78* [0.62,0.98] 0.78* [0.61,0.98] 0.75* [0.59,0.96] 1.08 [0.87,1.34] 1.04 [0.83,1.30] 1.04 [0.84,1.31]
Strongly Disagree or 4th Quartile (Highest Social Capital) Ref.
Observations 3739 3609 3555 3756 3624 3570 3813 3677 3623
Log lik. −1987.4 −1919.5 −1881.3 −1996.2 −1926.2 −1887.8 −2029.8 −1958.6 −1920.9
Chi-squared 764.9 743.6 732.9 765.3 744.2 732.4 780 756.4 745

Model 1: Controls for Demographics. Model 2: Controls for Demographics and Socio-Economics. Model 3: Controls for Demographics, Socio-Economics and Health Behavior

95% confidence intervals in brackets. Country dummies included in the model but not presented.

*

p < 0.05,

**

p < 0.01,

***

p < 0.001