Table 2 Bayesian path analysis with gender effects. For a select variables the direct effect is for women only, accompanied by an estimation of significant gender difference and corresponding effect for males. The unstandardized effect estimates are odds ratios (OR) for binary outcomes
VARIABLES | ESTIMATES USING STANDARDIZED VARIABLES | UNSTANDARDIZED EFFECT ESTIMATES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Outcome variable | Explanatory Variable | Direct effect (95% CrI) | Gender diff. (95% CrI) | Corresp. effect for males (95% CrI) | Direct effect (95% CrI) | Effect for males (95% CrI) |
MS bin | Diabetes | 3.47 (2.65,4.42) | 32.0 (14.2,83.4) | |||
Age | 0.31 (0.13,0.50) | -0.29 (-0.64,0.04) | 0.02 (-0.25,0.30) | 1.03 (1.01,1.04) | 1.00 (0.98,1.03) | |
PTH | 0.36 (0.15,0.57) | -0.43 (-0.77,-0.11) | -0.07 (-0.32,0.19) | 1.17 (1.07,1.28) | 0.97 (0.87,1.09) | |
Phosphate | 0.28 (0.10,0.47) | -0.42 (-0.76,-0.05) | -0.14 (-0.41,0.12) | 5.32 (1.79,17.39) | 0.42 (0.08,2.10) | |
PTH c | Age | 0.20 (0.13,0.27) | -0.18 (-0.29,-0.06) | 0.03 (-0.07,0.12) | 0.04 (0.03,0.05) | 0.005 (-0.013,0.023) |
Magnesium | 0.12 (0.06,0.18) | 3.76 (2.00,5.59) | ||||
Vitamin D | -0.27 (-0.33,-0.21) | -0.028 (-0.034,-0.022) | ||||
Phosphate | -0.26 (-0.32,-0.20) | -3.57 (-4.38,-2.81) | ||||
Calcium* | -0.09 (-0.15,-0.04) | -3.17 (-5.13,-1.19) | ||||
Calcium* c | Phosphate | 0.27 (0.21,0.33) | 1.31 (1.23,1.39) | |||
Diabetes bin | Magnesium | -0.76 (-0.93,-0.59) | 0.000 (0.000,0.0002) | |||
Age | 0.88 (0.71,1.07) | 1.08 (1.06,1.09) | ||||