Socio-economic inequalities in the chronic diseases management among Chinese adults aged 45 years and above: a cross sectional study

Table 8 Health checks as a mediating factor on the association between social participation and the diagnosis of hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia, among Chinese adults aged 45 years and above^a

Chronic conditions	Indirect effect via health checks		Direct effect		Total effect of social participation
Chronic conditions	Coefficient	95% CI	Coefficient	95% CI	Coefficient	95% CI
Hypertension	0.0062	(0.0031, 0.0109)	0.0293	(0.0014, 0.0651)	0.0355	(0.0066, 0.0712)
Diabetes	0.0156	(0.0072, 0.0282)	0.0499	(−0.0057, 0.1002)	0.0654	(0.0090, 0.1201)
Dyslipidemia	0.0050	(0.0018, 0.0090)	0.0514	(0.0150, 0.0910)	0.0564	(0.0173, 0.0938)

^a Adjusting for age, sex, marital status, smoke, drink, social health insurance. Bolded coefficients are statistically significant at the P level of 0.05

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