Table 2.

The association between chronic stressors and BRS, SDNN and RMSSD, adjusted for age, ethnicity waist to hip ratio and pack-years smoked in women

			Women
		BRSa		SDNNb		RMSSDc
		RIId (CIe)	p value	RII (CI)	p value	RII (CI)	p value
Work stress	Never	ref		ref		ref
	Some of the time	0.019 (-0.024, 0.062)	0.382	0.026 (-0.011, 0.063)	0.168	0.034 (-0.009, 0.077)	0.123
	Several periods	-0.002 (-0.061, 0.058)	0.952	0.008 (-0.043, 0.059)	0.766	-0.002 (-0.0061, 0.057)	0.955
	permanent	0.000 (-0.084, 0.084)	0.998	0.045 (-0.027, 0.118)	0.223	0.039 (-0.044, 0.123)	0.356
Home stress	Never	ref		Ref
	Some of the time	-0.007 (-0.037, 0.022)	0.617	-0.006 (-0.031, 0.020)	0.661	-0.007 (-0.036, 0.023)	0.665
	Several periods	-0.046 (-0.087, 0.004)	0.031	-0.018 (-0.054, 0.017)	0.315	-0.015 (-0.057, 0.026)	0.467
	permanent	0.005 (-0.056, 0.067)	0.862	0.016 (-0.037, 0.069)	0.552	0.017 (-0.045, 0.080)	0.585
Financial stress	No	ref				ref
	Careful	-0.019 (-0.055, 0.016)	0.281	-0.030 (-0.061, 0. 000)	0.052	-0.024 (-0.059, 0.012)	0.197
	Some difficulty	-0.030 (-0.068, 0.008)	0.125	-0.047 (-0.080, -0.014)	0.005	0.034 (-0.009, 0.077)	0.264
	Great difficulty	-0.055 (-0.098,-0.011)	0.014	-0.061 (-0.099, -0.024)	0.001	-0.044 (-0.088, 0.000)	0.052
Negative life event		0.003 (-0.025, 0.031)	0.848	0.003 (-0.021, 0.028)	0.788	0.005 (-0.023, 0.033)	0.731
Job control		0.000 (-0.001, 0.001)	0.475	0.000 (-0.001, 0.001)	0.789	0.000 (0.000, 0.001)	0.332
Discriminations		-0.006 (-0.038, 0.026)	0.705	0.012 (-0.015, 0.040)	0.372	0.005 (-0.027, 0.037)	0.756

^aBRS, baroreflex sensitivity

^bSDNN, standard deviation of the N-N interval

^cRMSSD, the root mean square of successive differences between normal heartbeats

^dRII, relative index of inequality

^eCI, confidence interval