NHS health checks: a cross- sectional observational study on equity of uptake and outcomes

Table 2 Characteristics of Patients who attended for an NHS Health Check (June 2010–October 2014)

Attended for an NHS Health Check	No	Yes	Crude OR ^a	Adjusted OR ^b	95% CI ^c		p-value ^d
Age ^e, n (%)
N	*18,031*	*13,733*	*31,764*
≤ 49 years	9013 (50.0)	4907 (35.7)					< 0.001
50–59 years	5379 (29.8)	4064 (29.6)	1.39	1.36	1.21	1.53
60–69 years	2731 (15.1)	3436 (25.0)	2.31	2.19	1.8	2.68
≥ 70 years	908 (5.0)	1326 (9.7)	2.68	2.53	1.89	3.39
Gender, n (%)
N	*18,148*	*13,733*	*31,881*
Female	8043 (44.3)	7273 (53.0)					< 0.001
Male	10,105 (55.7)	6460 (47.0)	0.71	0.73	0.67	0.8
National Index of Multiple Deprivation, n (%)
N	*18,120*	*13,704*	*31,824*
Quintile 1 (least deprived)	2124 (11.7)	1905 (13.9)					0.053
Quintile 2	3069 (16.9)	3065 (22.4)	1.11	1.15	0.87	1.53
Quintile 3	2712 (15.0)	2135 (15.6)	0.88	0.94	0.66	1.33
Quintile 4	5504 (30.4)	3644 (26.6)	0.74	0.81	0.52	1.26
Quintile 5 (most deprived)	4711 (26.0)	2955 (21.6)	0.70	0.8	0.52	1.24
Ethnicity, n (%)
N	*18,148*	*13,733*
White	8732 (48.1)	11,612 (84.6)
Mixed	155 (0.9)	383 (2.8)
Asian or British Asian	442 (2.4)	524 (3.8)
Other Black	620 (3.4)	514 (3.7)
Missing	8199 (45.2)	700 (5.1)

Notes
a. Odds ratios reported from logistic regressions clustered by practice (38 clusters)
b. Adjusted odds ratios reported from logistic regression clustered by practice (38 clusters) for model with age, gender and IMD. Ethnicity is not stated or missing for a large proportion of patients not attending an NHS Health Check (44.5%), hence not included in the model
c. 95% confidence intervals reported for adjusted odds ratios (model with age, gender and IMD)
d. p-values reported for Wald tests in model with age, gender and IMD
e. The NHS Health Check program is not intended for under 40s, however a small number of patients were reported as < 40
Bold data represent absolute totals.

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