Table 2.
Bivariate associations between study variables and T3 Allostatic Load for the US Multisite Child Community Health Network (CCHN) study for testing the economic, psychological and neighborhood explanations of racial disparities in clinical Allostatic Load (AL) 2008–2012 (n=1766).
| Unstandardized coefficients and 95% CI | Standardized coefficients and interquartile range (IQR) derived from 10 multiply imputed samples | |||||
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| Variable | Coef. | 95% CI | Median | IQR | ||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| African American | 0.80** | (0.54, 1.02) | 0.25 | 0.24 | – | 0.26 |
| Latina | 0.53*** | (0.24, 0.83) | 0.14 | 0.12 | – | 0.16 |
| Poverty Categories | ||||||
| 200–300% FPL | −0.10 | (−0.40, 0.19) | −0.02 | −0.03 | – | −0.01 |
| 300–400% FPL | −0.39* | (−0.70, −0.08 | −0.07 | −0.08 | – | −0.07 |
| > 400% FPL | −0.69*** | (−0.96, −0.43) | −0.17 | −0.18 | – | −0.15 |
| Stress | 0.11*** | (0.05, 0.16) | 0.11 | 0.10 | – | 0.12 |
| Resilience | −0.09** | (−0.14, −0.03) | −0.09 | 0.10 | – | −0.08 |
| Neighborhood Index 1 | 0.07 | (−0.05, 0.19) | 0.03 | 0.03 | – | 0.04 |
| Neighborhood Index 2 | 0.22** | (0.13, 0.32) | 0.15 | 0.14 | – | 0.17 |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; IQR, interquartile range; FPL, Federal Poverty Level
*
p < 0.05;
**
p < 0.01;
***
p < .001.