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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2017 Feb 23;23(7):737–751. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2017.1294660

Table 2.

Multivariate Linear Association of Structural Support Indices and each Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Factor

Major Cardiovascular Disease Risk factors
BMI Systolic BP Diastolic BP Cholesterol
M1: Unadjusted β (SE) p β (SE) p β (SE) p β (SE) p
Total number (children, parents, in-laws) 0.08 (0.08) 0.35 −0.29 (0.29) 0.32 0.11 (0.14) 0.45 −0.43 (0.68) 0.53
Regular contact (children, parents, in-laws) 0.01 (0.09) 0.93 −0.13 (0.34) 0.70 −0.03 (0.15) 0.86 0.08 (0.72) 0.92
Close ties with extended family relatives −0.06 (0.07)   0.39 0.01 (0.20) 0.98 0.02 (0.10) 0.86 0.70 (0.54) 0.19
M2
Total number (children, parents, in-laws) 0.08 (0.10) 0.41 0.44 (0.27) 0.11 0.23 (0.16) 0.16 0.01 (0.67) 0.99
Regular contact (children, parents, in-laws) −0.02 (0.11)   0.89 0.47 (0.30) 0.12 0.08 (0.17) 0.65 0.02 (0.69) 0.97
Close ties with extended family relatives 0.01 (0.08) 0.99 −0.16 (0.17) 0.33 −0.08 (0.11) 0.45 0.16 (0.49) 0.75
M3
Total number (children, parents, in-laws)* 0.09 (0.09) 0.33 0.44 (0.27) 0.11 0.23 (0.16) 0.17 −0.02 (0.67) 0.98
Regular contact (children, parents, in-laws)* 0.02 (0.10) 0.85 0.49 (0.31) 0.11 0.09 (0.18) 0.62 −0.10 (0.68) 0.89
Close ties with extended family relatives † 0.02 (0.08) 0.84 −0.16 (0.17) 0.35 −0.08 (0.11) 0.47 0.12 (0.50) 0.82
M4: Fully Adjusted
Total number (children, parents, in-laws)* 0.08 (0.09) 0.37 0.45 (0.27) 0.09 0.22 (0.16) 0.17 −0.06 (0.67) 0.93
Regular contact (children, parents, in-laws)* 0.03 (0.10) 0.81 0.47 (0.31) 0.13 0.09 (0.17) 0.61 −0.05 (0.68) 0.94
Close ties with extended family relatives † 0.03 (0.08) 0.72 −0.20 (0.17) 0.26 −0.08 (0.11) 0.49 0.22 (0.51) 0.67

M1: Unadjusted model.

M2: Adjusted for age, sex, Hispanic/Latino background, field center, income, education level, marital status, and acculturation.

M3: Adjusted for age, sex, Hispanic/Latino background, field center, income, education level, marital status, acculturation, physical health, and competing structural social index.

M4: Adjusted for age, sex, Hispanic/Latino background, field center, income, education level, marital status, acculturation, physical health (SF-12), structural social index, depressive symptoms, and anxiety.

*

Number of perceived close ties with extended family relatives included as a covariate in multivariate adjusted models, i.e., M3 and M4.

†

Total number of children, parents, and in-laws included as a covariate in multivariate adjusted models, i.e., M3 and M4.