Table 5.

Contribution of financial stress to the relative index of inequality for education on lnBRS, lnSDNN and lnRMSSD, stratified by sex

		Indirect effect		Total effect		Proportion mediated
		β (CIa)	p value	β (CI)	p value	Proportionb (CI)	p value
Women	lnBRSc	0.010 (-0.002, 0.023)	0.096	0.147 (0.088, 0.205)	<0.001	0.071 (-0.014, 0.179)	0.147
	lnSDNNd	0.015 (0.004, 0.026)	0.007	0.110 (0.059, 0.161)	<0.001	0.138 (0.035, 0.324)	0.062
	lnRMSSDe	0.011 (-0.002, 0.024)	0.099	0.044 (-0.016, 0.101)	0.143	0.243 (-1.680, 2.576)	0.996
Men	lnBRS	0.002 (-0.012, 0.015)	0.755	0.114 (0.057, 0.170)	<0.001	0.018 (-0.115, 0.150)	0.803
	lnSDNN	0.002 (-0.010, 0.014)	0.765	0.103 (0.051, 0.157)	<0.001	0.017 (-0.103, 0.157)	0.792
	lnRMSSD	-0.004 (-0.018, 0.010)	0.562	0.007 (-0.053, 0.068)	0.832	-0.629 (-3.418, 3.863)	0.999

^aCI, confidence interval

^bProportion mediated is the indirect effect (β) divided by the total effect (β)

^cSDNN, standard deviation of the N-N interval

^dBRS, baroreflex sensitivity

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