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Table 4 Association between ideal cardiovascular health factors and demographic and socio-economic variables – ordered logistic regression

From: Female sex and cardiovascular disease risk in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional, population-based study

 

Ideal CVH Factors

Univariate

Multivariable

OR

95% CI

P valuea

OR

95% CI

P valuea

Sex

 Male

1.00

  

1.0

  

 Female

0.34

0.23–0.52

< 0.001

0.32

0.21–0.49

< 0.001

Age group (years)

 16–39

1.00

  

1.00

  

 40–60

0.42

0.28–0.63

< 0.001

0.41

0.27–0.62

< 0.001

  ≥ 60

0.25

0.15–0.40

< 0.001

0.21

0.13–0.35

< 0.001

Filmer-Pritchett asset index

 Poor

1.00

  

1.00

  

 Middle

0.61

0.41–0.91

0.014

0.47

0.26–0.86

0.015

 Rich

0.44

0.26–0.75

0.003

0.31

0.18–0.53

< 0.001

Highest educational attainment (%)

 None

1.0

  

1.0

  

 Some primary

1.46

0.96–2.22

0.075

1.01

0.64–1.61

0.958

 Completed primary

2.08

1.25–3.46

0.003

1.15

0.67–1.97

0.614

 Post-primary

1.84

1.08–3.12

0.024

1.08

0.56–2.08

0.826

  1. a Boldface indicates statistical significance (*p < 0.05)