Table 2.
Odds ratios for statin prescription in the study population derived from a multivariate model containing age, diabetes type, BMI, smoking status, cholesterol level and deprivation quintile for men and women
| Men n = 7157 Nagelkerke’s r2 = 0.096 | Women n = 5601 Nagelkerke’s r2 = 0.101 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds ratio | P-value | Confidence interval | Odds ratio | P-value | Confidence interval | |||
| Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | |||||
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| 40–54 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| 55–64 | 1.11 | 0.115 | 0.98 | 1.26 | 1.35‡ | 0.000 | 1.15 | 1.58 |
| 65–74 | 0.87 | 0.063 | 0.75 | 1.01 | 1.29† | 0.002 | 1.10 | 1.52 |
| 75–84 | 0.58‡ | 0.000 | 0.48 | 0.71 | 0.80* | 0.027 | 0.66 | 0.98 |
| ≥ 85 | 0.25‡ | 0.000 | 0.15 | 0.40 | 0.24‡ | 0.000 | 0.16 | 0.36 |
| Diabetes type | ||||||||
| Type 1 | 0.42‡ | 0.000 | 0.29 | 0.61 | 0.48† | 0.006 | 0.28 | 0.81 |
| Type 2 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| BMI (kg/m2) | ||||||||
| < 18.5 | 0.52 | 0.064 | 0.26 | 1.04 | 0.44† | 0.005 | 0.24 | 0.78 |
| 18.5 to < 25 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| 25 to < 30 | 1.23* | 0.019 | 1.03 | 1.45 | 1.26* | 0.025 | 1.03 | 1.53 |
| ≥ 30 | 1.21* | 0.026 | 1.02 | 1.43 | 1.19 | 0.061 | 0.99 | 1.44 |
| Smoking status | ||||||||
| Never smoked | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Former smoker | 1.21† | 0.002 | 1.07 | 1.36 | 1.05 | 0.526 | 0.91 | 1.20 |
| Current smoker | 1.15 | 0.050 | 1.00 | 1.32 | 1.25† | 0.007 | 1.06 | 1.47 |
| Total cholesterol (mmol/l) | ||||||||
| < 5 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| ≥ 5 | 2.60‡ | 0.000 | 2.34 | 2.89 | 2.47‡ | 0.000 | 2.19 | 2.78 |
| Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile | ||||||||
| 1 (most deprived) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| 2 | 1.03 | 0.738 | 0.88 | 1.20 | 0.78† | 0.006 | 0.66 | 0.93 |
| 3 | 0.85 | 0.054 | 0.73 | 1.00 | 0.83* | 0.040 | 0.69 | 0.99 |
| 4 | 0.85* | 0.045 | 0.72 | 1.00 | 0.68‡ | 0.000 | 0.56 | 0.82 |
| 5 (least deprived) | 0.99 | 0.931 | 0.84 | 1.18 | 0.73† | 0.002 | 0.60 | 0.89 |
*P < 0.05, †P < 0.01, ‡P < 0.001.