TABLE 2.

Hazard of incident clinically significant depressive symptoms by self-reported sensory difficulty status.

	Hazard ratio1	95% confidence interval
Including proxy (N = 6,253)
No sensory difficulty	Reference	Reference
Hearing difficulty only	0.98	0.82–1.18
Visual difficulty only	1.25	1.00–1.56
Dual sensory difficulty	1.67	1.29–2.16
Excluding proxy (N = 5,998)
Hearing difficulty only	1.01	0.83–1.23
Visual difficulty only	1.28	1.02–1.61
Dual sensory difficulty	1.79	1.34–2.41

¹Hazard ratios are adjusted for: sex, race/ethnicity, and highest education, age, dementia status, number of chronic medical conditions, Medicaid eligibility, proxy respondent, and survey round.