Table 5.
Odds Ratios (and 95% Confidence Intervals) for multimorbidity cluster membership in rural, regional, and metropolitan CRC patients (unadjusted and controlling for age and SES).
| OR (CI, 95%) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regional vs. Metroa | Rural vs. Metrob | Rural vs. Regionalc | |||||||
| Unadjusted | Adjustedage | Adjustedage, SES | Unadjusted | Adjustedage | Adjustedage, SES | Unadjusted | Adjustedage | Adjustedage, SES | |
| Cluster 1 (CVD) | 1.02 (0.81, 1.29) | 0.97 (0.76, 1.23) | 0.83 (0.63, 1.9) | 1.05 (0.80, 1.37) | 1.10 (0.83, 1.45) | 0.97 (0.71, 1.32) | 0.93 (0.63, 1.38) | 0.96 (0.64, 1.44) | 1.18 (0.76, 1.84) |
| Cluster 2 (CVD + diabetes) | 0.41 (0.61, 1.22) | 0.83 (0.59, 1.17) | 0.73 (0.50, 1.08) | 0.98 (0.66, 1.45) | 1.02 (0.68, 1.52) | 0.94 (0.61, 1.46) | 1.20 (0.68, 2.11) | 1.23 (0.70, 2.18) | 1.44 (0.77, 2.67) |
| Cluster 3 (Respiratory) | 1.61∧ (0.95, 2.75) | 1.59 (0.94, 2.71) | 1.92 (1.05, 3.51) | 1.11 (0.60, 2.05) | 1.12 (0.60, 2.07) | 1.20 (0.61, 2.36) | 0.47 (0.18, 1.19) | 0.47 (0.19, 1.21) | 0.36∧ (0.12, 1.03) |
| Cluster 4 (HBP+ diabetes+ obese) | 1.04 (0.81, 1.33) | 1.02 (0.79, 1.31) | 0.87 (0.66, 1.16) | 1.15 (0.87, 1.54) | 1.17 (0.88, 1.03) | 1.03 (0.76, 1.42) | 0.94 (0.62, 1.43) | 0.95 (0.63, 1.46) | 1.18 (0.75, 1.87) |
| Cluster 5 (CVD+arthritis) | 1.10 (0.80, 1.51) | 1.06 (0.77, 1.45) | 0.91 (0.64, 1.29) | 0.92 (0.64, 1.33) | 0.96 (0.66, 1.40) | 0.81 (0.53, 1.22) | 0.83 (0.49, 1.41) | 0.85 (0.49, 1.45) | 1.05 (0.59, 1.88) |
| Any multimorbidity | 1.17 (0.96, 1.44) | 1.12 (0.90, 1.38) | 1.10 (0.87, 1.39) | 1.06 (0.83, 1.33) | 1.08 (0.85, 1.38) | 1.05 (0.81, 1.37) | 0.94 (0.62, 1.43) | 0.95 (0.63, 1.46) | 1.18 (0.75, 1.87) |