Table 4.

HRs (95% CIs) for the association between four measures of functional health literacy and mortality, controlling for sociodemographic, cognitive and health variables

	Model 1 Age and sex	Model 2 +education	Model 3 +age-11 IQ	Model 4 +current fluid ability in older age	Model 5 +occup class	Model 6 +health status
REALM	0.95 (0.90 to 1.01) n=794	0.96 (0.90 to 1.01) n=794	0.96 (0.90 to 1.02) n=752	0.97 (0.91 to 1.04) n=746	0.97 (0.90 to 1.04) n=731	1.00 (0.92 to 1.07) n=728
S-TOFHLA	0.95 (0.92 to 0.98)** n=744	0.95 (0.92 to 0.98)** n=744	0.95 (0.91 to 0.98)** n=702	0.97 (0.93 to 1.01) n=697	0.98 (0.94 to 1.02) n=682	1.00 (0.95 to 1.05) n=680
NVS	0.88 (0.80 to 0.97)** n=789	0.88 (0.80 to 0.97)* n=789	0.89 (0.80 to 0.99)* n=746	0.96 (0.86 to 1.08) n=742	0.97 (0.86 to 1.09) n=727	0.96 (0.85 to 1.08) n=724
General functional health literacy	0.77 (0.65 to 0.92)** n=740	0.75 (0.61 to 0.90)** n=740	0.74 (0.59 to 0.93)* n=698	0.87 (0.67 to 1.13) n=694	0.911 (0.70 to 1.19) n=679	0.95 (0.72 to 1.25) n=677

*P<0.05, **p<0.01.

NVS, Newest Vital Sign; occup class, occupational class; REALM, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine; S-TOFHLA, Shortened Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults.