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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2015 Nov 9;28(6):935–956. doi: 10.1177/0898264315614007

Table 1.

Results for Four-Class Solution From Latent Class Regression Analysis: Health Profiles of Older Male Inmates.

Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4




Healthy (Reference class) Substance users with behavioral health issues Chronic unhealthy with impairments and violence/injury Very unhealthy for all health domains
Chronic health conditions
 All-cause cancer (%) 0.6 5.2 10.1 2.8
 Hypertension 29.4 28.1 60.0 47.2
 Diabetes 5.7 10.5 30.1 20.5
 Heart problems 5.8 4.1 40.5 34.8
 Kidney problems 1.1 6.1 12.4 12.3
 Arthritis 17.9 29.7 65.2 75.9
 Asthma 2.6 10.0 17.7 18.0
Drug- and alcohol-related diseases
 Cirrhosis (%) 0.1 7.5 0.0 14.8
 Hepatitis 0.0 27.3 2.1 27.8
 HIV/AIDS 1.1 3.5 0.8 0.0
 STI 0.0 0.8 0.4 0.0
Impairments
 Mental impairment (%) 1.8 0.0 0.0 31.3
 Vision impairment 11.6 12.5 33.4 46.6
 Hearing impairment 5.2 6.8 30.6 44.3
 Require aid for daily living 0.7 1.0 23.4 23.8
Mental and behavioral health
 Depression (%) 8.0 9.2 15.8 57.9
 Post-traumatic stress disorder 5.2 1.5 4.6 34.2
 Substance use dependence 13.8 56.6 9.5 76.5
 Injecting drug use 0.0 64.6 1.4 53.5
 Intentional injury 9.7 16.6 14.5 22.9
 Accidental injury 13.5 20.8 28.3 35.7
 Childhood trauma 4.1 6.2 12.7 28.3
Percent in class 45.1 23.4 23.6 7.9
Fit statistics
 AIC 15,169.4
 BIC 15,751.6
 Observations 1,026

Note. AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; BIC = Bayesian Information Criterion; STI = sexually transmitted infection.