Table 4
Crude and adjusted odds ratios for handgun purchase within three years of death among female Californians age 21 and older who died from selected injury causes in 1998, compared with women who died from non-injury causes
| No exposed/No unexposed | Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of death | Cases | Controls | Unadjusted | Adjusted* | p Value |
| *Adjusted for age, race, education, and marital status. | |||||
| †Combines homicide and suicide. | |||||
| Intentional violence† | 37/942 | 49/106 825 | 85.6 (55.6 to 131.9) | 26.2 (15.0 to 45.8) | <0.001 |
| Any gun injury | 32/323 | 49/106 825 | 216.0 (136.5 to 341.7) | 73.2 (41.0 to 130.7) | <0.001 |
| Suicide | 36/635 | 49/106 825 | 123.6 (79.8 to 191.4) | 33.9 (19.3 to 59.3) | <0.001 |
| Gun suicide | 32/171 | 49/106 825 | 408.0 (255.0 to 652.8) | 109.8 (61.6 to 195.7) | <0.001 |
| Non-gun suicide | 4/464 | 49/106 825 | 18.8 (6.8 to 52.3) | 4.6 (1.5 to 14.5) | 0.009 |
| Homicide | 1/307 | 49/106 825 | 7.1 (1.0 to 51.6) | 2.5 (0.3 to 20.1) | 0.400 |
| Gun homicide | 0/151 | 49/106 825 | – | – | – |
| Non-gun homicide | 1/156 | 49/106 825 | 14.0 (1.9 to 101.8) | 4.0 (0.5 to 32.8) | 0.195 |
| Gun unintentional | 0/1 | 49/106 825 | – | – | – |
