Gender-specific, age-standardised prevalences for unfavourable self-reported health cardiovascular-disease risk factors in four Scottish Health Surveys 1995, 1998, 2003 and 2008 stratified by the highest educational qualification achieved
| Men | Slope (p value) | Women | Slope (p value) | |||||||
| Proportion (%) (95% CI)* | Proportion (%) (95% CI)* | |||||||||
| 1995 | 1998 | 2003 | 2008 | 1995 | 1998 | 2003 | 2008 | |||
| Diabetes | ||||||||||
| All | 1.9 (1.4 to 2.4) | 2.6 (2.0 to 3.1) | 2.8 (2.2 to 3.5) | 3.6 (2.8 to 4.4) | 0.12 (0.03) | 1.7 (1.2 to 2.1) | 1.7 (1.2 to 2.1) | 2.2 (1.6 to 2.7) | 3.0 (2.3 to 3.7) | 0.10 (0.04) |
| Level 3 | 2.0 (0.6 to 3.3) | 1.3 (0.3 to 2.3) | 2.2 (1.1 to 3.2) | 2.5 (1.2 to 3.7) | 0.06 (0.31) | 1.3 (0.6 to 2.0) | 1.4 (0.6 to 2.1) | 1.6 (0.6 to 2.5) | 1.5 (0.5 to 2.4) | 0.01 (0.29) |
| Level 2 | 1.6 (0.4 to 2.9) | 3.6 (2.2 to 5.1) | 2.4 (0.8 to 4.0) | 2.9 (1.4 to 4.4) | 0.05 (0.68) | 0.2 (0 to 0.9) | 0.8 (0 to 2.4) | 1.3 (0.2 to 2.3) | 3.6 (1.9 to 5.3) | 0.24 (0.05) |
| Level 1 | 2.7 (1.7 to 3.8) | 2.9 (1.8 to 4.0) | 1.8 (0.9 to 2.8) | 3.7 (2.2 to 5.3) | 0.05 (0.64) | 1.6 (0.6 to 2.5) | 0.8 (0.1 to 1.6) | 1.7 (0.8 to 2.6) | 2.4 (1.2 to 3.6) | 0.08 (0.24) |
| No qualifications | 1.7 (0.8 to 2.5) | 2.5 (1.4 to 3.6) | 4.3 (2.9 to 5.7) | 4.9 (3.2 to 6.5) | 0.26 (0.02) | 2.4 (1.5 to 3.2) | 2.2 (1.4 to 3.0) | 3.7 (2.3 to 5.0) | 6.7 (3.2 to 10.1) | 0.34 (0.06) |
| SII (p value) | 0.0 (0.97) | 0.9 (0.69) | 2.1 (0.37) | 2.9 (0.03) | 0.22 (0.005) | 1.8 (0.23) | 1.2 (0.42) | 2.5 (0.22) | 5.0 (0.23) | 0.26 (0.10) |
| Hypertension | ||||||||||
| All | 17.0 (15.7 to 18.3) | 16.9 (15.6 to 18.2) | 18.3 (16.9 to 19.8) | 21.3 (19.7 to 23.0) | 0.34 (0.06) | 16.5 (15.2 to 17.7) | 16.1 (14.8 to 17.3) | 17.5 (16.2 to 18.9) | 18.5 (16.9 to 20.0) | 0.18 (0.07) |
| Level 3 | 12.0 (9.1 to 14.8) | 15.3 (12.4 to 18.2) | 15.4 (12.9 to 17.9) | 16.8 (13.8 to 19.7) | 0.31 (0.13) | 14.8 (12.7 to 16.9) | 12.2 (10.2 to 14.2) | 15.2 (12.7 to 17.8) | 13.6 (11.0 to 16.2) | 0.005 (0.98) |
| Level 2 | 17.4 (14.2 to 20.7) | 16.8 (13.9 to 19.6) | 15.9 (12.3 to 19.5) | 21.9 (18.5 to 25.3) | 0.31 (0.34) | 11.8 (7.0 to 16.6) | 11.7 (7.4 to 16.0) | 15.2 (11.9 to 18.5) | 18.8 (15.4 to 22.2) | 0.57 (0.03) |
| Level 1 | 17.7 (15.4 to 20.1) | 15.8 (13.5 to 18.1) | 20.0 (17.3 to 22.7) | 24.4 (21.1 to 27.7) | 0.58 (0.1) | 18.9 (15.9 to 21.8) | 16.4 (13.5 to 19.3) | 19.0 (16.4 to 21.7) | 21.1 (18.0 to 24.3) | 0.24 (0.29) |
| No qualifications | 19.8 (17.1 to 22.5) | 19.8 (17.0 to 22.6) | 21.8 (18.4 to 25.2) | 20.5 (17.0 to 24.0) | 0.09 (0.47) | 17.3 (15.2 to 19.4) | 19.6 (17.3 to 21.8) | 20.4 (17.1 to 23.6) | 21.2 (16.5 to 25.8) | 0.27 (0.07) |
| SII (p value) | 8.2 (0.12) | 4.6 (0.24) | 9.3 (0.03) | 7.1 (0.32) | 0.06 (0.84) | 4.7 (0.39) | 11.4 (0.046) | 7.6 (0.06) | 10.9 (0.06) | 0.30 (0.46) |
Educational qualification categories: Level 3, degree level or above; Level 2, intermediate; Level 1, statutory school leaving; no qualifications.
Diabetes, self-reported doctor-diagnosed diabetes; hypertension, self-reported doctor-diagnosed hypertension; SII, slope index of inequality.
↵* Negative lower limits have been set to zero.