. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014 Mar 21;23(2):171–179. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2014.03.007

Table 2.

Regression Analysis Predicting Self-rated Health and Disease Burden from Covariates and Discrimination

	Self-rated Health (poor)			Disease Burden
	Baseline	Follow up	Change	Baseline	Follow up	Change
Demographic covariates
Age	.10^*	.09^*	.06^*	.35^*	.28^*	.03^*
Age squared	.02	.03	.02	−.10^*	−.10^*	−.03^*
Sex	−.01	−.02	−.02	.02	.00	−.03^*
Ethnicity (Black)	.10^*	.10^*	.03^*	.08^*	.08^*	.00
Ethnicity (Other)	.00	.02	.02	.00	.00	.00
Education	−.29^*	−.25^*	−.06^*	−.11^*	−.12^*	−.02^*
Discrimination based on
Race	.02	.02	.00	.02	.03	.01
Ancestry	.02	.02	.01	.00	.02	.02
Sex	−.03^*	−.01	.00	−.01	−.02	−.01
Age	.05^*	.08^*	.04^*	.05^*	.09^*	.03^*
Weight	.14^*	.14^*	.06^*	.14^*	.15^*	.04^*a
Physical disability	.23^*	.19^*	.05^*	.15^*	.16^*	.03^*
Appearance	.05^*	.04^*a	.01	.04^*	.04^*	.00
Sexual orientation	.01	.01	.00	.01	.00	−.01

Note. Standardized beta coefficients from linear regression analyses controlling for age, age squared, sex, ethnicity, and education. See Supplemental Table 1 for t-value for each coefficient. For self-rated health, n=7,614 at baseline (df=7606) and n=6,445 (df=6437) at follow-up. For disease burden, n=7,184 (df=7176) at baseline and n=6,051 (df=6043) at follow-up.

p < .01.

Reduced to non-significance when controlling for body mass index and smoking.