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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sleep Res. 2016 Feb;25(1):47–56. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12335

Table 2.

Predictors of incident RLS using logistic regression analysis in the entire cohort (n=3,519,773)

Odds Ratio (OR) 95% confidence
interval of OR

Age (+10 year) 1.01 0.98 – 1.04

Gender: female vs male (ref.) 1.37 1.19 – 1.56

Race:
White (ref.) 1.00 1.00-1.00
African-American 0.28 0.24 – 0.32
Hispanic 0.29 0.20 – 0.42
Other Race 0.77 0.61 – 0.97

Income (+1 log) 0.91 0.88 – 0.94

Marital status: Unmarried vs married (ref.) 1.10 1.03 – 1.18

Baseline eGFR (+10 ml/min./1.73m2) 1.03 1.00 – 1.05

Presence of diabetes vs absence of diabetes (ref.) 1.22 1.13 – 1.32

Presence of hypertension vs absence of hypertension (ref.) 1.04 0.96 – 1.12

Presence of Cardiovascular Disease vs absence of Cardiovascular Disease (ref.) 1.13 1.03 – 1.24

Presence of Congestive Heart Failure vs absence of Congestive Heart Failure (ref.) 1.14 0.99 – 1.30

Presence of Cerebrovascular Disease* vs absence of Cerebrovascular Disease* (ref.) 1.09 0.96 – 1.23

Presence of Peripheral Arterial Disease vs absence of Peripheral Arterial Disease (ref.) 1.43 1.27 – 1.60

Presence of Chronic Lung Disease vs absence of Chronic Lung Disease (ref.) 1.52 1.42 – 1.64

Presence of Dementia vs absence of dementia (ref.) 0.71 0.47 – 1.07

Presence of Rheumatologic Disease vs absence of Rheumatologic Disease (ref.) 1.14 0.90 – 1.45

Presence of Malignancy vs absence of malignancy (ref.) 0.98 0.88 – 1.09

Presence of AIDS/HIV vs absence of AIDS/HIV (ref.) 0.85 0.51 – 1.42

Presence of depression vs absence of depression (ref.) 1.70 1.57 – 1.85

Body mass index (+1 kg/m2) 0.98 0.98 – 0.99

Presence of OSA vs absence of OSA (ref.) 4.28 3.98 – 4.61

Presence of PLMS vs absence of PLMS (ref.) 4.83 3.94 – 5.92

Cardiovascular Disease was defined as acute myocardial infraction, angina, coronary artery disease, previous coronary artery bypass grafting or percutaneous coronary intervention

Abbreviations: AIDS: Acquired immundeficiency syndrome; eGFR: Estimated glomerular filtration rate; HIV: Human Immundeficiency Virus; OSA: Obstructive Sleep Apnea; PLMS: Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep; RLS: Restless Legs Syndrome