Table 5.

Adjusted multilevel models of multimorbidity factors with independent variables stratified by region (Brazil 2013)

Variables	Northern region		Northeastern region		Central Western region		Southeastern region		Southern region
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2
	β	β	β	β	β	β	β	β	β	β
	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI
Sex (ref: male)
Female	0.022	0.023	0.027	0.030	0.029	0.050	0.020	0.041	0.023	0.061
	0.018 to 0.026	0.019 to 0.027	0.023 to 0.03	0.027 to 0.034	0.023 to 0.034	0.044 to 0.056	0.015 to 0.024	0.036 to 0.045	0.017 to 0.03	0.053 to 0.069
Age (in years)	0.003	0.001	0.004	0.001	0.004	0.001	0.004	0.001	0.004	0.002
	0.003 to 0.003	0.001 to 0.001	0.003 to 0.004	0.001 to 0.001	0.004 to 0.004	0.001 to 0.002	0.004 to 0.004	0.001 to 0.001	0.004 to 0.004	0.001 to 0.002
Marital status (ref: without partner)
With partner	0.001	−0.002	0.000	−0.002	−0.007	−0.013	0.001	−0.005	0.002	−0.010
	−0.003 to 0.005	−0.006 to 0.003	−0.003 to 0.004	−0.005 to 0.002	−0.013 to −0.002	−0.02 to −0.007	−0.003 to 0.005	−0.010 to 0.000	−0.004 to 0.009	−0.018 to −0.002
Skin colour* (ref: white)
Black	0.005	−0.007	0.007	−0.003	−0.001	−0.021	0.008	−0.011	0.013	−0.018
	−0.002 to 0.013	−0.015 to 0.001	0.001 to 0.013	−0.01 to 0.003	−0.011 to 0.009	−0.033 to −0.01	0.001 to 0.016	−0.02 to −0.003	−0.001 to 0.026	−0.036 to 0.000
Brown	−0.002	−0.007	−0.001	−0.003	0.004	−0.003	0.004	−0.002	0.005	0.004
	−0.007 to 0.002	−0.012 to −0.002	−0.005 to 0.003	−0.008 to 0.001	−0.001 to 0.01	−0.010 to 0.004	−0.001 to 0.009	−0.008 to 0.003	−0.003 to 0.014	−0.007 to 0.015
Schooling (in years)† (ref: more educated)
III	0.006	0.007	0.011	0.000	0.012	−0.001	0.016	0.007	0.019	0.010
	0.000; 0.011	0.001 to 0.013	0.006 to 0.017	−0.006 to 0.006	0.004 to 0.02	−0.011 to 0.008	0.010 to 0.023	0.000 to 0.014	0.01 to 0.028	−0.002 to 0.021
II	0.009	0.005	0.015	0.006	0.016	−0.001	0.029	0.019	0.037	0.020
	0.003 to 0.014	−0.001 to 0.011	0.010 to 0.020	0.001 to 0.012	0.009 to 0.024	−0.01 to 0.008	0.023 to 0.035	0.013 to 0.026	0.028 to 0.046	0.009 to 0.031
I (less educated)	0.014	0.008	0.010	0.002	0.015	−0.009	0.022	−0.002	0.016	−0.005
	0.008 to 0.02	0.001 to 0.014	0.004 to 0.015	−0.004 to 0.008	0.005 to 0.025	−0.021 to 0.002	0.014 to 0.03	−0.011 to 0.007	0.004 to 0.027	−0.02 to 0.01
Wealth index (in quintiles) (ref: high)
2°	0.005	0.005	0.005	0.002	0.008	0.004	0.004	−0.003	0.011	0.017
	−0.003 to 0.013	−0.004 to 0.013	−0.002 to 0.011	−0.005 to 0.009	−0.001 to 0.016	−0.005 to 0.014	−0.002 to 0.011	−0.01 to 0.004	0.003 to 0.002	0.007 to 0.028
3°	0.009	0.004	0.012	0.010	0.002	0.002	0.004	0.002	0.012	0.027
	0.001 to 0.017	−0.004 to 0.013	0.005 to 0.018	0.003 to 0.017	−0.007 to 0.011	−0.008 to 0.013	−0.003 to 0.011	−0.005 to 0.01	0.003 to 0.021	0.015 to 0.039
4°	0.004	−0.001	0.005	0.004	0.005	0.005	0.003	−0.007	0.009	0.019
	−0.004 to 0.011	−0.01 to 0.007	−0.002 to 0.011	−0.003 to 0.011	−0.005 to 0.014	−0.006 to 0.016	−0.004 to 0.011	−0.015 to 0.001	−0.002 to 0.02	0.005 to 0.033
5° (low)	−0.004	−0.009	−0.001	0.004	0.001	0.004	−0.006	−0.004	−0.012	0.012
	−0.012 to 0.004	−0.017 to 0.000	−0.009 to 0.006	−0.003 to 0.012	−0.010 to 0.012	−0.008 to 0.017	−0.015 to 0.004	−0.015 to 0.006	−0.026 to 0.002	−0.006 to 0.029
Private health plan (ref: no)
Yes	0.009	0.009	0.010	0.008	0.007	0.009	0.002	0.008	0.005	0.001
	0.003 to 0.015	0.003 to 0.016	0.006 to 0.015	0.003 to 0.013	0.000 to 0.013	0.001 to 0.016	−0.003 to 0.006	0.002 to 0.013	−0.002 to 0.012	−0.008 to 0.01
Geographical area (ref: urban)
Rural	−0.007	0.004	−0.008	−0.006	−0.009	−0.001	−0.007	−0.010	−0.008	0.009
	−0.012 to −0.002	−0.002 to 0.009	−0.013 to −0.004	−0.011 to−0.001	−0.018 to −0.001	−0.01 to 0.009	−0.014 to 0.000	−0.018 to−0.001	−0.017 to 0.002	−0.003 to 0.021

Factor 1: cardiometabolic; factor 2: respiratory/mental/ muscle–skeletal. Note: The bold values are the results statistically significant (IC95% does not include the null value).