Table 3.

Cross sectional relationship between adolescent overweight or risk of overweight, socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics, and county sprawl index, 1997

	Overweight/risk of overweight (base model)			Overweight/risk of overweight (with TV watching)
	coeff	t	p	coeff	t	p
Age	−0.0427	−1.50	0.13	−0.0149	−0.32	0.75
Male	0.500	7.07	<0.001	0.482	5.34	<0.001
Black non-Hispanic	0.431	4.42	<0.001	0.452	3.52	0.001
Hispanic	0.137	0.69	0.49	0.341	1.51	0.13
Other race	0.194	1.27	0.21	0.342	1.72	0.09
Smoker	−0.0042	−0.03	0.97	0.258	1.29	0.20
Hours worked	0.00096	0.35	0.73	0.00060	1.26	0.21
Hours TV watching	---	---	---	0.0130	4.50	<0.001
Income $25-$50k	−0.125	−1.08	0.28	−0.080	−0.49	0.62
Income $50-$75k	−0.240	−1.37	0.17	−0.230	−1.05	0.30
Income ≥ $75k	−0.431	−2.96	0.004	−0.422	−2.06	0.04
Income missing	−0.261	−2.54	0.011	−0.359	−2.45	0.015
High school grad	−0.0182	−0.16	0.88	−0.0120	−0.08	0.94
Some college	−0.136	−1.08	0.28	−0.0838	−0.56	0.57
College grad	−0.411	−3.77	<0.001	−0.325	−2.60	0.010
County sprawl index*	−0.0030	−2.30	0.022	−0.0045	−2.47	0.014

^*Higher values of the index correspond to more compact development, lower values to more sprawling development.