Table 7.
Longitudinal association between religiosity and cardiovascular biomarkers
| Religiosity | Adjusted β-Coefficients (95% Confidence
Interval) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBP | DBP | FBS | HbA1c | T-chol | LDL–chol* | HDL–chol | TG | |
| Not religious at all |
Reference | |||||||
| Slightly religious |
−0.16 (−0.44–0.12) |
−0.07 (−0.24–0.11) |
0.04 (−0.21–0.29) |
−0.01 (−0.02–0.01) |
0.53 (−0.03–1.09) |
0.62 (0.13–1.11) |
−0.07 (−0.28–0.13) |
−0.28 (−1.66–1.11) |
| Somewhat religious |
−0.05 (−0.35–0.25) |
0.01 (−0.18–0.20) |
0.18 (−0.09–0.45) |
−0.01 (−0.02–0.01) |
0.41 (−0.20–1.02) |
0.28 (−0.25–0.81) |
−0.07 (−0.29–0.15) |
1.08 (−0.42–2.58) |
| Religious | −0.13 (−0.53–0.27) |
−0.16 (−0.42–0.09) |
−0.21 (−0.57–0.15) |
0.00 (−0.02–0.01) |
−0.26 (−1.07–0.56) |
0.10 (−0.62–0.81) |
−0.27 (−0.57–0.29) |
−0.51 (−2.52–1.50) |
BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FBS, fasting blood sugar; HbA1c, hemoglobin A1c; HDL–chol, high–density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL–chol, low–density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure; T–chol, total cholesterol.
Results in bold indicate statistically significant differences with a P–value less than 0.05
Analyses were adjusted for age, gender, occupation, health habits, BMI, and time variable. For analyses related to SBP and DBP, models were also adjusted for baseline blood pressure; for FBS and HbA1c, analyses were also adjusted for baseline diabetes related measures; and for the lipid outcomes, models were also adjusted for the respective baseline lipid level.
Indicates a statistical significance for the global P–value for each outcome