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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 26.
Published in final edited form as: Int Public Health J. 2022;14(3):263–276.

Table 3.

Log binomial models for obesity risk at age two in the PREVAIL Cohort

Variable Level RR 95%CI R2 AIC AUROC
Univariable Models Deprivation Index score Log10(score) 4.75 0.69 – 33.34 0.025 150.68 0.597
Deprivation Index category Low SEE1 3.31 0.99 – 14.57 0.062 150.90 0.615
Low Mid1 3.40 1.06 – 14.79
High Mid1 3.48 1.12 – 14.97
Not High SEE Yes1 3.40 1.26 – 13.86 0.062 146.92 0.611
Low income Yes2 1.68 0.83 – 3.61 0.021 151.09 0.575
Low access a b Yes3 0.68 0.30 – 2.11 0.006 152.59 0.526
LILA Yes4 1.52 0.75 – 3.08 0.014 151.78 0.561
Race Black5 1.34 0.63 – 2.85 0.036 151.50 0.521
Other5 3.36 0.93 – 8.07
Maternal Educ ≤High School6 1.09 0.52 – 2.19 0.001 153.11 0.513
Maternal Age Years 1.03 0.96 – 1.11 0.009 152.32 0.563
Income Level < $25k/year7 0.89 0.39 – 2.22 0.011 154.07 0.552
$25–50k/year7 1.41 0.53 – 3.74
Insurance Public8 1.26 0.63 – 2.60 0.004 152.73 0.535
Marital status Unmarried9 1.45 0.72 – 2.93 0.011 152.08 0.554
Lives with Partner No10 0.91 0.37 – 1.95 0.001 144.96 0.511
Maternal obesity Yes11 1.31 0.65 – 2.6 0.006 152.59 0.539
Multivariable Deprivation Index score
+ race + maternal education + maternal obesity
Log(10) score 8.29 0.65 – 108.48 0.068 154.3 0.644
Black5 1.14 0.38 – 3.18
Other5 3.03 0.82 – 7.67
≤High School l6 0.62 0.23 – 1.70
Mat. obesity11 1.24 0.59 – 2.60
Deprivation Index category
+ race + maternal education + maternal obesity a
Low SEE1 3.88 0.90 – 16.73 0.099 155.1 0.674
Low Mid1 3.29 0.89 – 12.13
High Mid1 3.63 1.04 – 12.68
Black5 1.19 0.44 – 3.17
Other5 2.93 1.08 – 7.93
≤High School6 0.65 0.26 – 1.64
Mat. obesity11 1.19 0.58 – 2.45
Not High SEE
+ race + maternal education + maternal obesity b
Yes1 3.52 1.06 – 11.71 0.098 151.1 0.674
Black5 1.17 0.44 – 3.09
Other5 2.81 1.06 – 7.49
≤High School6 0.69 0.29 – 1.64
Mat. obesity11 1.18 0.58 – 2.41
LILA Yes4 1.36 0.63 – 2.97 0.048 156.3 0.613
Black5 1.24 0.40 – 3.50
Other5 3.10 0.83 – 8.04
≤High School l6 0.84 0.34 – 2.13
Mat. obesity11 1.20 0.57 – 2.52

Log binomial models of risk of obesity at age two for children enrolled in the PREVAIL cohort (n = 171) by family-level socio-demographic and neighborhood socio-economic environment (SEE). Residential addresses were geocoded and assigned validated measures of census tract-level SEE, including the Deprivation Index and USDA low income and low access variables. Categorical Deprivation Index was based on quartile of score and a low income/low access (LILA) designation was defined as census tracts that met both USDA low income and low access criteria. An area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUROC) ≥0.70 was considered adequate predictive accuracy, with higher variance explained (R2) and lower Akaike information criterion (AIC) indicating better model fit. Superscript letters indicate significant differences in AUROC per DeLong’s test for correlated AUROC for the model comparisons.

Reference values are

1

High SEE,

2

not Low Income,

3

not Low Access,

4

not LILA,

5

white race,

6

> high school education level,

7

income > $50,000/year,

8

private insurance,

9

married,

10

cohabitating,

11

no maternal obesity.