A community-based cluster randomized survey of noncommunicable disease and risk factors in a peri-urban shantytown in Lima, Peru

Table 4 Associations of sex and age with noncommunicable disease conditions in a Peruvian shantytown, 2012

	Depression	Chronic respiratory disease	Arthritis	Cancer	Myocardial infarction	Diabetes^a
	Multivariable OR	Multivariable OR	Multivariable OR	Multivariable OR	Multivariable OR	Multivariable OR
	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)
Female	2.74	0.80	4.02	Could not be	0.22	2.58
Gender	(0.59, 12.74)	(0.21, 3.04)	(0.16, 100.26)	calculated	(0.01, 4.45)	(0.18, 37.20)
Age	1.00	1.01	1.07***	1.13***	0.98	1.06
(Years)	(0.97, 1.03)	(0.98, 1.04)	(1.03, 1.11)	(1.07, 1.20)	(0.95, 1.01)	(0.99, 1.14)

All models of associations of gender and disease conditions are adjusted for continuous age.
All models of associations of age and disease conditions are adjusted for gender.
^aModel additionally adjusted for household crowding.
Significance codes: p < 0.001 ‘***’, p < 0.01 ‘**’, p < 0.05 ‘*’, p > 0.05‘.

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