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. 2021 Jul 17;38:101029. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101029

Table 5.

Risk of personal contact with COVID-19 and testing positive for COVID-19 according to community-level deprivation.a

Personal contact with COVID-19 COVID-19 infection
No. of cases OR (95% CI)b No. of cases OR (95% CI)b
United States
Quintile 1 (least deprived) 6721 1 (reference) 1281 1 (reference)
Quintile 2 6732 1.01 (0.97-1.04) 1556 1.20 (1.12-1.30)
Quintile 3 7199 1.07 (1.03-1.10) 1810 1.36 (1.26-1.46)
Quintile 4 7977 1.14 (1.10-1.17) 2056 1.46 (1.36-1.57)
Quintile 5 (most deprived) 9356 1.24 (1.20-1.28) 2654 1.71 (1.60-1.84)
Ptrend <0.001 <0.001
United Kingdom
Quintile 1 (least deprived) 52716 1 (reference) 8274 1 (reference)
Quintile 2 50106 1.04 (1.03-1.05) 7560 1.05 (1.01-1.08)
Quintile 3 52851 1.04 (1.02-1.05) 8582 1.04 (1.01-1.07)
Quintile 4 53159 1.06 (1.05-1.08) 8437 1.09 (1.05-1.12)
Quintile 5 (most deprived) 56063 1.11 (1.10-1.12) 9775 1.26 (1.22-1.29)
Ptrend <0.001 <0.001

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

a

Community-level deprivation was represented by the Neighborhood Deprivation Index in the United States and the Index of Multiple Deprivation in the United Kingdom. Higher scores represented more deprived neighborhood.

b

Logistic regression model adjusted for age, sex, and date of study entry.