Socioeconomic position and health status of people who live near busy roads: the Rome Longitudinal Study (RoLS)

Table 5 Association of socioeconomic position (SEP) with traffic exposure by area of residence

	Residents in the railway ring (N = 298,326)						Residents outside the railway ring (N = 1,600,572)
		Living at < = 50 m from HTR						Living at < = 50 m from HTR
	N	%	OR^†	95% CI	OR^‡	95% CI	N	%	OR^†	95% CI	OR^‡	95% CI
Age group
0-17	39,515	23.6	1.00		1.00		250,024	14.0	1.00		1.00
18-34	58,731	25.4	1.10	1.05 - 1.15	1.18	1.10 - 1.27	361,438	14.9	1.08	1.05 - 1.11	1.05	1.01 - 1.09
35-64	128,539	24.6	1.05	1.02 - 1.09	1.15	1.07 - 1.22	692,614	15.1	1.10	1.07 - 1.12	1.05	1.02 - 1.08
65-74	36,099	25.2	1.09	1.04 - 1.15	1.14	1.06 - 1.22	178,233	16.9	1.25	1.19 - 1.31	1.21	1.15 - 1.27
75+	35,442	25.2	1.09	1.04 - 1.14	1.15	1.08 - 1.22	118,263	18.9	1.43	1.36 - 1.51	1.36	1.29 - 1.43
Area based SEP
High	107,244	21.8	1.00		1.00		258,421	16.5	1.00		1.00
Medium-high	96,397	24.5	1.17	0.91 - 1.49	1.16	0.91 - 1.48	282,154	17.2	1.05	0.86 - 1.29	1.06	0.87 - 1.30
Medium	59,480	28.5	1.43	1.09 - 1.89	1.41	1.07 - 1.86	315,283	19.4	1.22	0.99 - 1.49	1.23	1.00 - 1.51
Medium-low	26,347	27.2	1.34	0.90 - 1.99	1.30	0.88 - 1.93	364,457	14.1	0.84	0.68 - 1.03	0.85	0.69 - 1.05
Low	8,858	31.5	1.65	0.74 - 3.66	1.60	0.72 - 3.59	380,250	11.2	0.65	0.52 - 0.81	0.66	0.53 - 0.82
Education*
University	75,040	22.5	1.00		1.00		175,926	17.0	1.00		1.00
High school	103,950	25.2	1.15	1.10 - 1.21	1.14	1.09 - 1.19	520,729	15.8	0.93	0.90 - 0.97	0.96	0.93 - 0.99
Secondary school	90,623	26.5	1.29	1.18 - 1.42	1.24	1.14 - 1.34	710,587	15.0	0.84	0.78 - 0.90	0.95	0.90 - 0.99
Primary school	16,179	24.1	1.24	1.12 - 1.37	1.17	1.07 - 1.28	114,722	14.2	0.77	0.71 - 0.84	0.90	0.85 - 0.96

*(> = 6 year olds)
† multiple regression models including sex, and age group
‡ multiple regression models including sex, age group, area-based SEP, and education

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