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Table 7 Relationships between deprivation score (D)and tobacco, excessive alcohol, and frequent psychotropic drug use among retired people: odds ratios adjusted for age and 95% CI

From: Associations of social and material deprivation with tobacco, alcohol, and psychotropic drug use, and gender: a population-based study

 

Retired people

 

Tobacco use

Excessive alcohol intake

Frequent use of psychotropic drugs

Men (836 subjects)

      

Deprivation (D)

      

Low educational level

1.37

0.93–2.03

1.23

0.79–1.94

1.29

0.93–1.78

Manual worker

1.27

0.83–1.96

2.22‡

1.40–3.52

1.32

0.92–1.90

Low perceived income

1.80

0.82–3.95

2.45*

1.08–5.56

2.20*

1.07–4.54

Living alone

1.58

0.81–3.10

1.65

0.77–3.52

1.13

0.63–2.04

Unemployed

-

 

-

 

-

 

Foreign nationality

1.27

0.42–3.84

(1)

 

1.11

0.43–2.87

Not home-owner

1.38

0.88–2.16

1.57

0.95–2.60

1.38

0.95–2.01

Women (716 subjects)

      

Deprivation

      

Low educational level

0.70

0.36–1.35

0.46

0.24–1.65

1.09

0.80–1.48

Manual worker

0.70

0.24–2.04

1.77

0.37–8.45

1.48

0.95–2.32

Low perceived income

0.89

0.20–4.03

(1)

 

1.13

0.56–2.27

Living alone

1.23

0.61–2.47

1.66

0.48–5.76

1.23

0.90–1.70

Unemployed

-

 

-

 

-

 

Foreign nationality

 

3.45

center0.69–17.2

(1)

0.55

0.17–1.77

Not home-owner

1.43

0.72-2.87

4.46*

1.27-15.7

1.09

0.78-1.52

*P<0.05, ‡P<0.001