Table 3.

Impact of global sensory impairment on the likelihood of individual sensory dysfunctions, and its association with age, gender and race/ethnicity.

	Single Factor Model		Structural Equation Model
	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value
Sensory Dysfunction1
Hearing dysfunction	0.43	<0.001	0.40	<0.001
Vision dysfunction	0.71	<0.001	0.36	<0.001
Smell dysfunction	0.65	<0.001	0.48	<0.001
Touch dysfunction	0.29	<0.001	0.19	<0.001
Taste dysfunction	0.24	<0.001	0.15	<0.001
Demographics2
Age (per decade)			1.12	<0.001
Women (vs. men)			−0.67	<0.001
Race/ethnicity (vs. white)
African-American (AA)			0.93	<0.001
Hispanic (non-AA)			0.46	0.002
Other			0.50	0.066

¹Coefficients from ordinal probit regressions of each three-category sensory dysfunction measure on the underlying factor (global sensory impairment), each indicating the change in the likelihood (on the probit scale) of being above a given cut point associated with a one standard deviation increase in the underlying factor.

²Coefficients indicate the change in the underlying factor associated with a one-unit change in the demographic covariate (residual variance of the underlying factor is constrained to equal one).