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Table 2.

Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting the Probability of Metabolic Syndrome at Wave IV Among Black College Attendees at Waves I, III, and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, United States, 1994–2009^a

	Model 1 (n = 727)		Model 2 (n = 727)		Model 3 (n = 727)		Model 4 (n = 727)		Model 5 (n = 727)		Model 6 (n = 727)		Model 7 (n = 727)
Independent Variables	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
HBCU vs. PWI	0.68^b	0.47,0.99	0.61^c	0.42,0.88	0.63^b	0.44,0.91	0.64^b	0.44,0.93	0.63^b	0.44,0.89	0.63^b	0.45,0.90	0.65^b	0.45,0.94
Age			1.01	0.91,1.09	1.00	0.91,1.09	1.00	0.91,1.09	0.98	0.90,1.08	0.97	0.89,1.07	0.98	0.89,1.07
Female sex			0.91	0.67,1.24	0.93	0.68,1.26	0.92	0.68,1.25	0.91	0.67,1.23	0.93	0.68,1.26	0.94	0.66,1.35
Census region
Northeast			1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent
Midwest			0.53^b	0.30,0.94	0.54^b	0.31,0.93	0.54^b	0.31,0.92	0.57^b	0.34,0.94	0.56^b	0.34,0.93	0.64	0.38,1.09
South			0.81	0.50,1.29	0.81	0.51,1.28	0.81	0.51,1.29	0.82	0.52,1.29	0.82	0.52,1.30	0.86	0.54,1.38
West			0.75	0.52,1.08	0.76	0.52,1.10	0.77	0.53,1.11	0.75^d	0.55,1.03	0.68^b	0.47,0.97	0.71^d	0.50,1.00
Urbanicity
Urban			1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent	1.00	Referent
Suburban			0.96	0.62,1.49	0.95	0.61,1.48	0.96	0.62,1.48	0.98	0.64,1.48	0.93	0.61,1.42	1.01	0.65,1.55
Rural			0.93	0.60,1.43	0.93	0.61,1.43	0.92	0.60,1.42	0.92	0.60,1.43	0.93	0.60,1.43	0.91	0.59,1.41
Private (vs. public) college					1.19	0.83,1.71	1.18	0.82,1.70	1.16	0.81,1.68	1.14	0.79,1.65	1.20	0.82,1.75
Graduated college					0.65^b	0.47,0.92	0.67^b	0.47,0.95	0.68^b	0.48,0.97	0.68^b	0.48,0.96	0.70^b	0.50,0.98
Family disadvantage							1.07	0.87,1.30	1.05	0.86,1.28	1.06	0.86,1.29	1.06	0.87,1.29
School disadvantage									1.06	0.99,1.15	1.08^d	1.00,1.17	1.07	0.98,1.16
Neighborhood disadvantage											0.94	0.85,1.03	0.94	0.85,1.03
Childhood health
Obesity													2.47^e	1.47,4.16
Diabetes													1.30	0.59,2.88
Self-rated health													0.98	0.82,1.17

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HBCU, Historically Black College or University; OR, odds ratio; PWI, predominately White institution.

^a Each model progressively incorporates additional control variables, sociodemographic measures, postsecondary institution and college attainment measures, early-life disadvantage measures, and adolescent health measures. P values are from 2-tailed tests.

^b P < 0.05.

^c P < 0.01.

^d P < 0.1.

^e P < 0.001.