Table 5.
Estimated Odds Ratios of Wave 1 Sexuality Predicting Wave 2 Cardiovascular Risks from Cross-Lagged Models for Women (N=1,158)
| Hypertension (multinomial logit) | Rapid heart rate (binary logit) | High CRP (ordinal logit) | CVD events (binary logit) | |||
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| Controlled v.s. normal | Undiagnosed v.s. normal | Uncontrolled v.s. normal | ||||
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| Model A: Sexually Active (ref: no) | ||||||
| Had sex last year | 1.20 | 1.28 | 1.22 | 0.86 | 0.91 | 1.60 |
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| Model B: Sex frequency (ref: none) | ||||||
| Once a month | 0.98 | 0.86 | 0.74 | 0.63 | 0.90 | 1.91 |
| 2–3 times a month | 2.01 | 1.17 | 1.78 | 1.51 | 1.18 | 1.23 |
| Once a week or more | 2.02 | 1.82 | 1.58 | 0.93 | 1.48 | 1.16 |
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| Model C: Physical pleasure (ref: not very pleasurable) | ||||||
| Very pleasurable | 1.70 | 1.00 | 1.13 | 0.68 | 1.07 | 1.17 |
| Extremely pleasurable | 0.86 | 0.53* | 0.42* | 1.08 | 0.88 | 0.71 |
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| Model D: Emotional satisfaction (ref: not very satisfying) | ||||||
| Very satisfying | 1.09 | 0.97 | 0.77 | 1.14 | 0.84 | 1.34 |
| Extremely satisfying | 0.79 | 0.71 | 0.44** | 1.24 | 0.70 | 1.14 |
Two-tailed tests:
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p<0.001,
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p<0.01,
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p<0.05. In all models, we control for age, race-ethnicity, marital status, education, relative family income, self-rated physical health, psychological distress, smoking, drinking, BMI, physical activity, antihypertensive medication use, and sexual hormones use (all measured at Wave 1) as well as probability of death at W2. Cardiovascular risks and sexuality at W1 are also controlled.