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Published in final edited form as: Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2019 May 21;47(4):333–339. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12463

TABLE 3.

Adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for risk of total tooth loss from the social mobility model, Health and Retirement Study 2012 (N = 6,427)

	Social mobility model

	OR	95% CI
Lifetime adversity patterns
Stable advantageous	1.00	-
Upward mobility	1.27	0.93, 1.72
Downward mobility	1.13	0.65, 1.98
Stable disadvantageous	1.77^*	1.08, 2.90
F-statistics	22.79**

Note: Stable advantageous denotes no adverse experiences over the life course. Upward mobility denotes adversity experienced in childhood but not in adulthood. Downward mobility denotes no adversity in childhood but experienced in adulthood. Stable disadvantageous denotes persistently experienced adversity over the life course. Table 3 controls for current health conditions, current health behaviors, and sociodemographic covariates.

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

P < 0.05

^***

P < 0.001.