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Published in final edited form as: J Biosoc Sci. 2019 May 27;51(6):827–842. doi: 10.1017/S0021932019000130

Table 2:

Determinants of Systolic and Diastolic BP from robust OLS regressions of months away and covariates

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3 Systolic BP	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6	Model 7	Model 8 Diastolic BP	Model 9	Model 10
Months Away	0.792^**	0.796^**	0.878^***	0.850^***	0.753^**	0.639^**	0.724^***	0.762^***	0.749^***	0.669^**
	(0.316)	(0.324)	(0.320)	(0.320)	(0.307)	(0.263)	(0.270)	(0.271)	(0.273)	(0.270)
	[0.175]	[0.176]	[0.194]	[0.188]	[0.166]	[0.178]	[0.202]	[0.213]	[0.209]	[0.187]
Age	0.409^***	0.473^***	0.408^***	0.424^***	0.355^***	0.409^***	0.456^***	0.431^***	0.439^***	0.390^***
	(0.113)	(0.116)	(0.117)	(0.117)	(0.114)	(0.0940)	(0.0968)	(0.0992)	(0.1000)	(0.100)
	[0.350]	[0.405]	[0.349]	[0.363]	[0.304]	[0.443]	[0.493]	[0.466]	[0.475]	[0.422]
Age Squared	−0.00808^*	−0.0109^**	−0.00829^*	0.00896^*	−0.00616	−0.0162^***	−0.0188^***	−0.0178^***	−0.0183^***	−0.0163^***
	(0.00430)	(0.00451)	(0.00452)	(0.00456)	(0.00443)	(0.00358)	(0.00375)	(0.00383)	(0.00389)	(0.00389)
	[−0.177]	[−0.238]	[−0.181]	[−0.196]	[−0.135]	[−0.447]	[−0.519]	[−0.492]	[−0.506]	[−0.449]
Female	−7.255^***	−7.982^***	−10.34^***	−11.10^***	−12.31^***	−3.283	−4.256^*	−5.036^**	−5.588^**	−6.730^**
	(2.724)	(2.783)	(2.848)	(2.885)	(3.607)	(2.267)	(2.315)	(2.415)	(2.462)	(3.173)
Employed		−5.721^*	−7.317^**	−7.996^**	−8.721^***		−5.407^**	−5.875^**	−6.420^**	−6.864^**
		(3.205)	(3.185)	(3.245)	(3.127)		(2.667)	(2.701)	(2.770)	(2.751)
High School Graduate		2.705	1.806	2.565	3.019		0.366	0.0322	0.434	0.631
		(3.085)	(3.045)	(3.078)	(2.990)		(2.567)	(2.582)	(2.627)	(2.630)
Body Mass Index			0.649^***	0.664^***	0.765^***			0.239	0.243	0.327^*
			(0.230)	(0.231)	(0.223)			(0.195)	(0.197)	(0.196)
			[0.202]	[0.207]	[0.238]			[0.0940]	[0.0957]	[0.129]
3 meals/day (ref)
Less than 3 meals/day				−3.638	−0.641				−1.797	0.218
				(3.120)	(4.257)				(2.663)	(3.745)
More than 3 meals/day				1.698	−12.48^*				2.947	−7.358
				(3.875)	(6.630)				(3.308)	(5.832)
3 meals/day^*female (ref)
Less than 3 meals/day^*Female					−7.031					−4.512
					(6.013)					(5.290)
More than 3
meals/day^*Female					21.07^***					15.07^**
					(8.038)					(7.071)
Months Away Imputed	0.332	−0.112	−0.245	−0.662	−1.193	−0.820	−1.349	−1.362	−1.554	−1.779
	(4.257)	(4.271)	(4.193)	(4.200)	(4.020)	(3.542)	(3.553)	(3.555)	(3.585)	(3.537)
Constant	141.8^***	144.1^***	128.3^***	129.4^***	127 1^***	100.3^***	103.0^***	97.07^***	97.56^***	95.79^***
	(2.848)	(3.308)	(6.510)	(6.542)	(6.369)	(2.370)	(2.752)	(5.520)	(5.584)	(5.602)
Observations	194	194	194	194	194	194	194	194	194	194
R-squared	0.0921	0.109	0.140	0.148	0.188	0.123	0.141	0.147	0.153	0.178
AIC	202.809	198.835	202.864	202.946	212.791	175.055	173.126	177.077	184.208	199.746

Standard errors in parentheses

Normalized beta coefficients for continuous variables in brackets

^***

p<0.01

^**

p<0.05

p<0.1

^{^}

age variable is centered on the mean