Life Satisfaction and Dental Visits in Adults Aged ≥50 Years and Living with Diabetes Mellitus: A Comparison between Urban and Rural Mexican

Table 3

Adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) from Poisson’s regression analysis of the number of visits to dentist among adults aged ≥50 years with diabetes in Mexico ().

	Crude PR (95% CI)		Adjust PR (95% CI)
Sex
Men	Reference		Reference
Women	1.17 (1.10–1.25)	<0.001	1.28 (1.08–1.51)	0.004
Age
50–59 years	Reference		Reference
60–69 years	0.80 (0.74–0.85)	<0.001	0.91 (0.75–1.09)	0.321
≥70 years	0.55 (0.51–0.59)	<0.001	0.72 (0.60–0.86)	<0.001
Years of education
≥10 years	Reference		Reference
1–9 years	0.52 (0.48–0.55)	<0.001	0.56 (0.45–0.71)	<0.001
No education	0.28 (0.25–0.32)	<0.001	0.37 (0.27–0.51)	<0.001
Life satisfaction
(high)	Reference		Reference	—
(low)	0.37 (0.34–0.40)	<0.001	0.42 (0.34–0.51)
Place of residence
Urban	Reference		Reference
Rural	0.59 (0.54–0.65)	<0.001	0.78 (0.63–0.96)	—
Rural locality and low life satisfaction () (interaction terms)	—	—	0.60 (0.37–0.98)	0.042
Smoking
No	Reference		Reference
Yes	1.18 (1.07–1.31)	0.001	1.07 (0.79–1.45)	0.650
Stress-related health
Almost nothing/nothing	Reference		Reference
Very much/something	1.36 (1.28–1.44)	<0.001	1.21 (1.03–1.40)	0.014

RR: rate ratio, CI: confidence interval. Log .