Socioeconomic Factors and Inequality in the Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults in China

Table 5

Logistic regression model on incidence of receiving antidiabetic medication among middle-aged and elderly diabetes patients.

	Urban		Rural
	Odds ratio	95% CI	Odds ratio	95% CI
Gender (ref. female)	0.5551	(0.2141-1.4391)	0.9052	(0.5207-1.5739)
Age (ref. ≤ 55)
56–65	0.9817	(0.6663-1.3928)	1.4237	(0.9608-2.1761)
>65	0.8092	(0.4745-1.2771)	1.0788	(0.5417-1.9686)
Ethnic group (ref. Han)	0.7072	(0.2122-2.3567)	0.4112	(0.1715-0.8863)
Marital status (ref. divorced/single)	1.2728	(0.8341-1.6024)	1.2486	(0.7657-1.5948)
Education level (ref. less than primary school)
Less than lower secondary	1.0340	(0.3987-2.9754)	1.1415	(0.7232-1.9017)
Upper secondary & vocational training	1.3928	(0.9033-1.6541)	1.1749	(0.5098-1.7854)
Family size (ref. ≤ 2)	1.1804	(0.5426-1.8329)	1.4037	(0.8316-1.8021)
Household income per capita (log)	1.1682	(0.6530-1.6392)	1.4662	(0.7751-1.7998)
Type of labour (ref. government & institutions)
Farmer	0.7636	(0.2988-2.1452)	0.8289	(0.4446-1.9450)
Self-employed/employed	2.6591	(1.0008-4.0149)	3.4054	(0.3585-9.3468)
Never drunk (ref. history of drinking)	0.9704	(0.4338-2.1709)	1.3116	(0.8168-2.3085)
Never smoked (ref. history of smoking)	0.9883	(0.3788-2.5791)	0.9144	(0.5186-2.6123)
ADL (ref. without any ADL)	2.3800	(0.6907-8.2009)	1.3776	(0.7673-2.4743)
BMI (ref. ≤ 18.5)
18.6–24.1	1.0009	(0.2321-2.4933)	1.1721	(0.4499-3.0530)
>24.1	0.8983	(0.3890-2.0746)	1.2010	(0.7845-1.8385)
Self-reported health status	0.6656	(0.2617-0.9981)	0.9338	(0.5725-1.5652)
Having hypertension (ref. no)	1.6678	(0.7710-2.4429)	0.9856	(0.4700-2.0499)

Note: estimates were weighted using individual sampling weights and adjusted for household and individual responses. , ,