Examining educational attainment and allostatic load in non-Hispanic Black women

BMC Women's Health

Table 2 Association between education and high allostatic load presented as prevalence ratios (PRs) and associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs), among 4177 participants, using NHANES weighting an estimated 9,494,904 US Black women

	No. (weighted %)^a	Prevalence ratios (95% confidence interval)
	No. (weighted %)^a	Crude	Model 1^b	Model 2^c	Model 3^d
Education level
Less than high school (Referent)	443 (25.3)	1.000 (Referent)	1.000 (Referent)	1.000 (Referent)	1.000 (Referent)
High school/GED	393 (24.1)	0.850 (0.849–0.850)	0.946 (0.937–0.954)	0.932 (0.925–0.940)	0.926 (0.920–0.933)
Some college or associates degree	546 (35.3)	0.858 (0.857–0.859)	0.959 (0.952–0.967)	1.005 (0.993–1.017)	1.027 (1.013–1.041)
College graduate or higher	226 (15.3)	0.746 (0.738–0.753)	0.758 (0.750–0.767)	0.835 (0.819–0.851)	0.857 (0.839–0.876)

Prevalence ratios for high allostatic load are estimated using modified Poisson regression with robust variance estimation and accounting for NHANES weighting. Confidence intervals estimated using delete-1 jackknife method accounting for complex statistical weighting, cluster, and strata
^aNumber of participants with high allostatic load per stratum (weighted stratum proportion with high allostatic load)
^bModel 1: Adjusted for age only
^cModel 2: Additionally adjusted for total number of pregnancies, age at menarche, and poverty to income ratio,
^dModel 3: Additionally adjusted for depressive disorder, smoker status, ever congestive heart failure, and ever heart attack

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