Table 6.

Crude and adjusted association between socioeconomic status and malignant neoplasms mortality.

Model	Socioeconomic status (SES)			P-value for trend
	High income (%) = 20.60	Middle income (%) = 35.72	Low income (%) = 43.68
	(19.44, 21.76)	(33.79, 37.66)	(40.70, 46.66)
Model 1 (HR)	1.00 (Reference)	1.74 (1.36–2.23)	1.77 (1.37–2.29)	<0.001
P-values		<0.001	<0.001
Model 2 (HR)	1.00 (Reference)	1.29 (1.01–1.65)	1.63 (1.22–2.18)	0.001
P-values		0.042	0.001
Model 3 (HR)	1.00 (Reference)	1.27 (1.01–1.63)	1.58 (1.17–2.13)	0.003
P-values		0.045	0.003

Model 1: Unadjusted model; Model 2: Adjusted for age (continuous), sex (male or female), and marital status (Married, Living with partner, Separated, Divorced, Widowed, Never married), educational level (divided into <9th grade, 9–11th grade, high school graduate, some college or AA degree, college graduate or above), depression severity (None, Mild, Moderate, Moderately Severe, Severe); Model 3: Further adjusted for the American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7 (continuous).

HR, hazard ratio.