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Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychol. 2016 Oct 20;121(Pt A):91–98. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.10.008

Table 4.

Pre-deployment High Frequency Domain (HF) Heart Rate Variability Generalized Linear Mixed Model Binary Distribution/Logit Link.

Variable PCL ≥ 34
 PCL ≥ 50
Estimate (SE) p-value Estimate (SE) p-value
Age −0.004 (0.02) 0.857 −0.04 (0.05) 0.434
Race (1 = Caucasian, 0 = non-Caucasian) −0.81 (0.32) 0.011 −1.11 (0.66) 0.093
Marital (1 = Married/Cohabitating, 0 = Other) −0.31 (0.33) 0.356 −0.12 (0.66) 0.861
Tobacco use (1 = Yes) 0.24 (0.30) 0.439 0.17 (0.64) 0.785
Childhood abuse (1 = Yes) 0.53 (0.36) 0.145 1.30 (0.70) 0.063
Previous combat zone exposure (1 = Yes) −0.13 (0.35) 0.718 −0.63 (0.78) 0.420
Pre-deployment Traumatic Brain Injury (1 = Yes) 1.72 (0.71) 0.016 1.51 (0.99) 0.131
Time (3-month PCL versus 12-month) 0.35 (0.26) 0.177 0.88 (0.63) 0.163
Pre-deployment Respiration Rate −0.002 (0.04) 0.965 −0.14 (0.10) 0.171
Pre-deployment PCL 0.26 (0.08) 0.001 0.41 (0.13) 0.002
Pre-deployment ln(HF) 0.66 (0.41) 0.110 1.64 (0.80) 0.041
Pre-deployment PCL* Pre-deployment ln(HF) −0.04 (0.02) 0.020 −0.07 (0.03) 0.008