Veterans' Likelihood of Reporting Cardiovascular Disease

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Figure 1.
Predicted Count of Heart Conditions by Veteran Status and Age.

Table 1.

Bivariate Analyses by Veteran Status

Condition	Total %/Mean, n = 153,556	Veteran, %/Mean, n = 15,361	Nonveteran, %/Mean, n = 138,195	Veteran vs Nonveteran
Cardiovascular condition
Hypertension	33.8	42.8	32.8	**
Coronary heart disease	5.5	9.9	5.0	**
Heart condition	8.3	11.4	7.9	**
Stroke	3.5	5.3	3.3	**
Heart attack	4.1	7.8	3.7	**
No. of heart conditions
0	61.17	50.29	62.37	**
1	28.11	32.21	27.65
2	6.59	10.17	6.19
3	2.91	5.08	2.67
4	1.03	1.92	0.93
5	0.20	0.33	0.18
General health
Excellent	3.4	4.5	3.2	**
Very good	11.1	13.4	10.8
Good	27.4	31.0	27.0
Fair	31.5	30.7	31.5
Poor	26.8	20.3	27.5
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	61.2	76.7	59.5	**
Non-Hispanic black	13.8	13.3	13.8
Non-Hispanic other race	17.7	6.4	18.9
Hispanic/latino	7.4	3.5	7.8
Marital status
Married/living with partner	51.1	53.6	50.9	**
Divorced/separated	9.4	10.9	9.3
Widowed	16.9	19.5	16.6
Never married	22.5	16.0	23.3
Educational level
Less than high school diploma	15.1	7.3	15.9	**
High school diploma or equivalent	26.1	27.6	25.9
Some college/2-year degree	30.3	37.4	29.5
Four year college degree or higher	28.6	27.8	28.7
Sex
Male	44.6	66.4	42.2	**
Female	55.4	33.6	57.8
Age (in years)	49.6	56.2	48.9	**

Table 3.

Negative Binomial Regression for Cardiovascular Conditions by Veteran Status and Sociodemographic Characteristics

Parameter	Incidence Rate Ratio	95% CI
Veteran Status
Veteran	1.42	1.27–1.59	^*
Nonveteran
General Health
Excellent	0.49	0.47–0.52	^*
Very good	0.57	0.55–0.60	^*
Good	0.66	0.63–0.70	^*
Fair	0.83	0.79–0.87	^*
Poor
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white
Non-Hispanic black	1.06	1.03–1.09	^*
Non-Hispanic other race	0.92	0.90–0.95	^*
Hispanic/latino	0.93	0.89–0.96	^*
Marital status
Married/living with partner
Widowed	0.94	0.90–0.98	^*
Divorced/separated	1.17	1.14–1.21	^*
Never married	1.00	0.96–1.05
Educational level
Less than high school diploma
High school diploma or equivalent	1.01	0.99–1.04
Some college/2-year degree	1.06	1.03–1.09	^*
Four year college degree or higher	1.00	0.97–1.03
Sex
Male	1.22	1.19–1.26	^*
Female
Age (in years)	1.04	1.04–1.04	^*
Age ^* veteran status	0.99	0.99–0.99	^*
Constant	0.07	0.07–0.08
Alpha parameter	0.01	0.00–0.07
Log of alpha parameter	−4.64	−6.58 to −2.70