Table 2.

Predictors of Overall Health: The ARIC Study.

	Survivorship Model		Cohort Model
	Estimate	SE	Estimate	SE
Intercept	77.23*	0.68	77.38*	0.84
Cancer (vs. cancer-free)
Lung	−7.00*	0.84	−7.63*	1.02
Breast	−3.97*	0.71	−5.07*	0.87
Prostate	0.71	0.67	2.26*	0.82
Colorectal	−2.12*	0.91	−2.30*	1.11
Post-event (vs. pre-event)†
5+ years	−3.81*	0.20	−8.54*	0.22
1–5 years	−3.07*	0.14	−6.11*	0.15
Diagnosis-1 year	−4.75*	0.18	−7.95*	0.18
No Health Insurance (vs. Health Insurance)	−3.99*	0.48	−4.86*	0.59
Body Mass Index (vs. Normal)
Obese	−4.50*	0.37	−4.58*	0.45
Overweight	−0.95*	0.33	−1.27*	0.40
Underweight	−6.40*	1.50	−7.04*	1.83
Smoker (vs. Never)
Current	−4.45*	0.36	−4.55*	0.44
Former	−0.51	0.34	−0.13	0.41
Drinker (vs. Never)
Current	0.40	0.37	−0.21	0.46
Former	−2.15*	0.43	−2.91*	0.53
Education(vs. Vocational, College, Graduate school)
High School or Less	−9.09*	0.38	−8.84*	0.47
High School Graduate	−3.23*	0.32	−3.37*	0.39
Physical Activity Score	2.82*	0.18	2.86*	0.22
Male (vs. Female)	−0.10	0.31	−0.31	0.38
Race/Community (vs. White/NC)
Black/Mississippi	−8.33*	0.44	−9.36*	0.54
Black/North Carolina	−5.25*	0.83	−6.03*	1.01
White/Maryland	0.75	0.40	0.39	0.49
White/Minnesota	1.97*	0.40	1.73*	0.50
Period (vs. 2000–2005)
1986–1992	2.78*	0.23	3.62*	0.24
1993–1999	1.42*	0.14	1.99*	0.15
CVD	−10.57*	0.49	−11.14*	0.60
Chronic lung disease	−6.57*	0.48	−6.33*	0.59
Hypertension	−3.66*	0.31	−3.46*	0.38
Diabetes	−12.79*	0.54	−13.73*	0.65
High Cholesterol	−2.88*	0.34	−3.08*	0.42
Physical Exam (vs. routine physical at least once a year)
No routine physicals	0.04	0.33	−0.15	0.40
Physical at least every 5 years	0.53	0.35	0.29	0.43
Age, centered at 65	−0.32*	0.02	−0.48*	0.03

^*Significant (p<0.05).

^†Each member of the cancer-free group was assigned a random “event” date (15).