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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 19.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2017 Jan;52(1 Suppl 1):S56–S62. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.09.019

Table 3.

Latent Class Analysis–Derived Health Lifestyle Membership in Relation to Sociodemographic Factors and Medical History

Covariates Black (n=2,451) White (n=2,351)


Less healthy Unhealthy Most unhealthy Moderately healthy Somewhat unhealthy Most unhealthy
Age 1.09*** (1.05, 1.12) 1.15*** (1.11, 1.19) 1.10** (1.03, 1.19) 0.97 (0.93, 1.01) 1.00 (0.96, 1.05) 1.03 (0.99, 1.07)

Male 3.36*** (2.72, 4.13) 0.84 (0.66, 1.07) 8.77*** (4.74, 16.22) 0.52*** (0.42, 0.65) 0.95 (0.72, 1.24) 0.58*** (0.46, 0.73)

Years of schooling 0.84*** (0.79, 0.89) 0.73*** (0.68, 0.78) 0.62*** (0.53, 0.73) 0.99 (0.94, 1.04) 0.92** (0.86, 0.98) 0.75*** (0.71, 0.80)

Marriage: past 1.17 (0.80, 1.70) 1.17 (0.80, 1.71) 2.21* (1.06, 4.60) 0.65 (0.37, 1.14) 1.42 (0.87, 2.31) 1.55* (1.02, 2.34)

Marriage: current 0.68** (0.51, 0.91) 0.62** (0.46, 0.85) 0.51 (0.23, 1.14) 1.73*** (1.34, 2.25) 0.65* (0.45, 0.94) 1.16 (0.88, 1.54)

Work: part-time 0.54*** (0.40, 0.73) 0.70* (0.51, 0.97) 0.41* (0.20, 0.84) 0.64* (0.44, 0.93) 1.14 (0.68, 1.92) 0.76 (0.53, 1.08)

Work: full-time 0.70** (0.55, 0.90) 0.73* (0.55, 0.95) 0.71 (0.40, 1.25) 0.91 (0.66, 1.25) 1.67* (1.06, 2.62) 0.72 (0.53, 0.98)

High blood pressure 1.10 (0.78, 1.56) 1.32 (0.93, 1.88) 1.10 (0.49, 2.44) 1.31 (0.87, 1.99) 0.95 (0.55, 1.64) 1.12 (0.73, 1.72)

High cholesterol 0.97 (0.43, 2.18) 0.87 (0.35, 2.17) 0.75 (0.09, 6.09) 1.29 (0.66, 2.49) 0.93 (0.38, 2.28) 1.20 (0.61, 2.38)

Heart problems 0.92 (0.59, 1.45) 1.1 (0.70, 1.72) 1.44 (0.54, 3.87) 1.02 (0.63, 1.65) 1.16 (0.67, 2.03) 1.30 (0.83, 2.03)

Diabetes 1.69 (0.67, 4.25) 0.92 (0.29, 2.88) 4.45 (0.88, 22.54) 0 (0.00, .) 0.67 (0.08, 5.73) 0.7 (0.17, 2.83)

Cancer 1.49 (0.80, 2.77) 1.07 (0.56, 2.04) 1.03 (0.07, 10.06) 1.23 (0.62, 2.46) 1.41 (0.63, 3.21) 1.81 (0.96, 3.42)

Note: Boldface indicates statistical significance (***p<0.001; **p<0.01; *p<0.05, two-tailed tests). Values are adjusted relative risk ratio estimates (95% CIs) calculated against the reference category “Most healthy”.