Economic conditions, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: analysis of the Icelandic economic collapse

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Table 3 Mediation analysis - males: Linear probability fixed-effects estimates

Dependent variable	Hypertension			Cardiovascular Disease
	dy/dx	Robust SE		dy/dx	Robust SE
Without mediators
t2012	-0.0469	0.0284	*	-0.0092	0.0172
BMI included
t2012	-0.0468	0.0292		-0.0119	0.0177
1 if underweight	-0.0112	0.0158		0.0096	0.0097
1 if overweight	0.0044	0.0215		0.0083	0.0121
1 if obese	0.0546	0.0426		0.0210	0.0182
Alcohol included
t2012	-0.0607	0.0292	**	-0.0093	0.0177
1 if daily drinker	0.0537	0.1090		0.1070	0.0612	*
1 if frequent drinker	0.1300	0.0874		0.0928	0.0412	**
1 if seldom drinker	0.1100	0.0873		-0.0895	0.0412	**
1 if rare drinker	-0.0654	0.0808		0.0698	0.0373	*
Smoking included
t2012	-0.0666	0.0275	**	-0.0137	0.0175
1 if daily smoker	0.0556	0.0355		-0.0165	0.0166
1 if weekly smoker	-0.0140	0.0240		-0.0476	0.0249	*
1 if seldom smoker	0.0134	0.0535		-0.0525	0.0250	**
Perceived status in society included
t2012	-0.0605	0.0298	**	-0.0036	0.0178
1 if much better	0.0260	0.0368		-0.0108	0.0208
1 if considerably better	0.0143	0.0159		0.0181	0.0096	*
1 if somewhat better	-0.0011	0.0142		-0.0046	0.0080
1 if somewhat worse	-0.0502	0.0244	**	0.0039	0.0072
1 if considerably worse	-0.0769	0.0483		-0.0023	0.0190
1 if much worse	-0.0695	0.0623		0.1330	0.0741	*
Stress included
t2012	-0.0566	0.0300	*	-0.0022	0.0179
pss	0.0063	0.0038	*	-0.0009	0.0018
Unemployment included
t2012	-0.0436	0.0296		-0.0073	0.0176
1 if unemployed	0.0098	0.0451		-0.0097	0.0276
Income included
t2012	-0.0534	0.0285	**	-0.0148	0.0172
real income	-0.0017	0.0038		0.0018	0.0015
Working hours included
t2012	-0.0726	0.0318	**	-0.0084	0.0193
working hours per workday	-0.0016	0.0016		0.0005	0.0011

Sample weights are applied. Covariates controlled for are number of children, marital status, residence, presciption mediation, and short-term crisis coefficient (t2009). *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01

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