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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biosoc Sci. 2019 May 27;51(6):827–842. doi: 10.1017/S0021932019000130

Table 3:

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

Model 11 Model 12 Model 13 Systolic BP Model 14 Model 15 Model 16 Model 17 Model 18 Diastolic BP Model 19 Model 20
Stayed home or near village (ref)
Migrated away 8.597** 9.387*** 9.671*** 10.38*** 8.747** 7.505*** 8.925*** 8.992*** 9.185*** 8.274***
(3.413) (3.607) (3.542) (3.573) (3.468) (2.833) (2.999) (3.015) (3.083) (3.030)
Age^ 0.420*** 0.489*** 0.423*** 0.461*** 0.355*** 0.407*** 0.450*** 0.427*** 0.443*** 0.394***
(0.111) (0.115) (0.116) (0.116) (0.114) (0.0925) (0.0957) (0.0987) (0.0997) (0.0992)
[0.359] [0.419] [0.363] [0.395] [0.304] [0.44] [0.487] [0.462] [0.479] [0.426]
Age Squared −0.00846** −0.0118*** −0.00930** −0.0104** −0.00626 −0.0161*** −0.0188*** −0.0180*** −0.0186*** −0.0165***
(0.00425) (0.00448) (0.00450) (0.00450) (0.00442) (0.00353) (0.00373) (0.00383) (0.00389) (0.00386)
[−0.185] [−0.258] [−0.203] [−0.227] [−0.137] [−0.444] [−0.521] [−0.497] [−0.513] [−0.457]
Female −6.408** −7.210*** −9.335*** −10.35*** −11.60*** −2.514 −3.421 −4.032* −4.685* −6.131*
(2.715) (2.757) (2.814) (2.835) (3.607) (2.253) (2.292) (2.396) (2.447) (3.151)
Employed −6.557** −7.932** −8.822*** −9.108*** −5.546** −5.838** −6.393** −6.842**
(3.209) (3.186) (3.215) (3.124) (2.669) (2.712) (2.774) (2.730)
High School Graduate 2.036 1.270 2.060 2.513 −0.479 −0.717 −0.194 −0.0223
(3.099) (3.055) (3.063) (3.003) (2.576) (2.600) (2.643) (2.623)
Body Mass Index 0.606*** 0.637*** 0.747*** 0.187 0.202 0.294
(0.227) (0.226) (0.221) (0.193) (0.195) (0.193)
[0.189] [0.199] [0.233] [0.0738] [0.0795] [0.116]
3 meals/day (ref)
Less than 3 meals/day −5.438* −2.391 −2.958 −0.988
(3.096) (4.233) (2.672) (3.698)
More than 3 meals/day 0.00740 −13.78** 1.820 −8.638
(3.855) (6.577) (3.327) (5.746)
3 meals/day*female (ref)
Less than 3 meals/day*Female −6.334 −4.101
(5.975) (5.220)
More than 3
meals/day*Female 21.03*** 15.17**
(7.992) (6.982)
Constant 142.9*** 145.6*** 131.0*** 132.6*** 129.0*** 100.6*** 103.6*** 99.04*** 99.69*** 97.73***
(2.640) (3.113) (6.267) (6.249) (6.147) (2.191) (2.588) (5.335) (5.393) (5.370)
Observations 194 194 194 194 194 194 194 194 194 194
R-squared 0.095 0.114 0.142 0.159 0.188 .125 .145 .147 .153 .181
AIC 190.396 188.411 188.682 177.894 233.158 177.097 177.276 185.167 195.373 199.255

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