Table 5.

Health risk factors

Health factors	Nicoya	Other Costa Rica	Odds ratio	(95% CI)
Smoker currently	0.36	0.36	0.99	(0.94–1.05)
Smoker past	0.21	0.21	0.99	(0.83–1.18)
Physically active	0.30	0.27	1.18	(0.94–1.48)
Visited at home by health worker	0.45	0.41	1.15	(0.97–1.38)
Received flu vaccine	0.64	0.59	1.24 *	(1.04–1.49)
High BP medicine	0.46	0.51	0.82 +	(0.66–1.02)
Lipid lowering medicine	0.14	0.27	0.43 **	(0.32–0.59)
Diabetes medicine	0.18	0.20	0.87	(0.62–1.21)
Conditional on being sick:
High BP medicine	0.63	0.67	0.86	(0.68–1.09)
Lipid lowering medicine	0.29	0.36	0.71+	(0.48–1.04)
Diabetes medicine	0.53	0.55	0.92	(0.62–1.36)

^**significant at P <.01,

^*significant at P <.05,

⁺significant at P <.10

Approximate N: 7,200 observations in the three CRELES waves, including 870 from Nicoya.

The proportions are predicted probabilities for samples with mean age 72 years and sex ratio of one, which were obtained using logistic regressions.