Table 3:
Estimated Change in BMI per Change in SES Predictor Variable†.
| Adjusted for Age | Adjusted for Age and All 4 Individual - Level SES Measures |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Ratio | [95% CI] | Ptrend ‡ | Mean Ratio | [95% CI] | Ptrend ‡ | |
| White Cohort (n = 487) | (n = 461) | |||||
| Education | ||||||
| High school graduate or lower | 1.02 | [0.95, 1.09] | 1.00 | [0.93, 1.07] | ||
| Vocational/training school; some college or associate degree (referent) | 1.00 | < 0.001§ | 1.00 | 0.004§ | ||
| College graduate or baccalaureate degree | 0.87 | [0.82, 0.93] | 0.91 | [0.85, 0.97] | ||
| College or professional degree after college graduation | 0.87 | [0.78, 0.97] | 0.88 | [0.79, 0.9S] | ||
| Master’s or doctoral degree | 0.85 | [0.79, 0.91] | 0.90 | [0.84, 0.97] | ||
| Total Family Income (in $1000) | ||||||
| Decrease of 1 IQR ($55,000) | 1.08 | [1.05, 1.11] | < 0.001 | 1.03 | [0.99, 1.06] | 0.15 |
| Employment status | ||||||
| Employed (referent) | 1.00 | 0.001 | 1.00 | 0.22 | ||
| Unemployed | 1.09 | [1.03, 1.14] | 1.03 | [0.98, 1.09] | ||
| MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status | ||||||
| Decrease of 1 IQR (3 ladder units) | 1.12 | [1.07, 1.16] | < 0.0001 | 1.05 | [1.00, 1.11] | 0.04 |
| Hispanic Cohort (n = 479)* | (n = 357) | |||||
| Education | ||||||
| Didn’t go to school; grade school (1 – 4 years) | 0.96 | [0.89, 1.03] | 0.94 | [0.86, 1.03] | ||
| Grade school (5 – 8 years) | 0.97 | [0.91, 1.04] | 0.96 | [0.89, 1.03] | ||
| Some high school (9 – 11 years) | 0.99 | [0.92, 1.06] | 0.96 | [0.89, 1.04] | ||
| High school diploma or GED | 0.96 | [0.90, 1.02] | 0.97 | [0.89, 1.03] | ||
| Vocational/training school; some college or associate degree (referent) | 1.00 | 0.99§ | 1.00 | 0.47§ | ||
| College graduate or higher | 0.95 | [0.89, 1.02] | 0.96 | [0.89, 1.04] | ||
| Total Family Income (in $1000) | ||||||
| Decrease of 1 IQR ($28,500) | 1.01 | [0.99, 1.04] | 0.30 | 1.01 | [0.98, 1.03] | 0.76 |
| Employment status | ||||||
| Employed (referent) | 1.00 | 0.54 | 1.00 | 0.84 | ||
| Unemployed | 1.01 | [0.98 1.05] | 1.00 | [0.95, 1.04] | ||
| MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status | ||||||
| Decrease of 1 IQR (3 ladder units) | 1.01 | [0.99, 1.04] | 0.41 | 1.01 | [0.98, 1.04] | 0.50 |
†
Ratio of means, obtained by back-transforming the estimated change in Loge (BMI) corresponding to the SES change specified;
‡
P - Value for test of linear trend in Loge (BMI);
§
Treating education as a continuous-scaled measure; modeled separately;
*
Includes additional adjustment for acculturation (language spoken most of the time): English, Spanish; IQR = Interquartile range.