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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2021 Feb-Mar;83(2):177–186. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000893

Table 3.

Emotional support and socioeconomic variables predicting inflammation and metabolic composites (N=307)

Income Financial stress
Inflammatory composite
Step 1
Age 0.01 (0.01) 0.01 (0.01)
Race (Black) 0.20 (0.13) 0.20 (0.13)
Race (White) −0.26 (0.11)* −0.25 (0.11)*
Sex −0.28 (0.13)* −0.28 (0.13)*
Step 2
SES −0.07 (0.02)** 0.12 (0.05)*
Disproportionate emotional support 0.09 (0.05)* 0.09 (0.05)*
Step 3
Disproportionate emotional support x SES −0.04 (0.02)* 0.08 (0.04)*

Metabolic composite
Step 1
Age 0.02 (0.01)** 0.02 (0.01)**
Race (Black) 0.31 (0.10)** 0.32 (0.10)**
Race (White) −0.15 (0.09) −0.14 (0.09)
Sex −0.06 (0.11) −0.06 (0.11)
Step 2
SES −0.06 (0.02)** 0.15 (0.04)***
Disproportionate emotional support 0.01 (0.04) 0.00 (0.04)
Step 3
Disproportionate emotional support x SES 0.00 (0.01) 0.01 (0.03)

Note: Reporting b(S.E.);

***

p<0.001,

**

p<0.01,

*

p<0.05.

SES=socioeconomic status variable (effect of income in column 1, effect of financial stress in column 2). Top half of table reports coefficients predicting the inflammatory composite as an outcome; bottom half of table reports coefficients predicting the metabolic composite as an outcome.