Table 2.
Health Status by Sexual Orientation
| Percent (95 % confidence interval) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted percentages adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, and deprivation | Heterosexual (Ref.) (M: n = 764,291; F: n = 1,021,541) | Gay/Lesbian (M: n = 12,346; F: n = 6,324) | Bisexual (M: n = 4,161; F: n = 4,666) | Other (M: n = 6,167; F: n = 8,101) | Prefer Not to Say/Missing*(M: n = 110,361; F: n = 177,377) |
| Men | |||||
| Fair/Poor General Health Status | 19.6 (19.5, 19.7) | 21.9 (20.9, 22.8) p < 0.001 | 26.4 (24.8, 27.9) p < 0.001 | 26.8 (25.2, 28.4) p < 0.001 | 24.4 (24.0, 24.7) p < 0.001 |
| Longstanding psychological or emotional condition | 5.2 (5.2, 5.3) | 10.9 (10.3, 11.6) p < 0.001 | 15.0 (13.5, 16.5) p < 0.001 | 10.4 (9.3, 11.4) p < 0.001 | 7.2 (7.0, 7.5) p < 0.001 |
| Women | |||||
| Fair/Poor General Health Status | 20.5 (20.4, 20.6) | 24.9 (23.6, 26.2) p < 0.001 | 31.6 (30.0, 33.3) p < 0.001 | 27.1 (26.0, 28.3) p < 0.001 | 24.7 (24.5, 25.0) p < 0.001 |
| Longstanding psychological or emotional condition | 6.0 (5.9, 6.0) | 12.3 (11.4, 13.2) p < 0.001 | 18.8 (17.1, 20.5) p < 0.001 | 9.2 (8.4, 10.1) p < 0.001 | 6.8 (6.6, 7.0) p < 0.001 |
*43,043 men and 53,129 women selected “prefer not to say”, and 67,318 men and 124,248 women did not answer the sexual orientation item
Entries are adjusted percentages of the population based on 2,115,335 observations with non-missing gender and weighted with design and non-response weights to improve the representativeness of respondents in terms of age, gender and practice
P values are for tests of whether the designated orientation group differs from the heterosexual/straight reference group of the same gender. Cells for which p < 0.01 appear in boldface