Table 5.

Cross sectional relationship between young adult obesity, socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics, and county sprawl index, 2002

	Obesity (base model)			Obesity (with exercise, fruit/vegetable consumption, and TV watching)
	coeff	t	p	coeff	t	p
Age	0.182	5.75	<0.001	0.165	5.20	< 0.001
Male	0.0041	0.05	0.96	0.0406	0.50	0.62
Black non-Hispanic	0.527	5.18	<0.001	0.407	3.91	< 0.001
Hispanic	0.419	3.94	<0.001	0.373	3.51	0.001
Other race	0.305	1.49	0.14	0.285	1.37	0.17
Cigarettes	−0.00014	−0.76	0.45	−0.00031	−1.61	0.11
Hours worked	0.000073	1.61	0.11	0.000090	1.98	0.047
Highest grade completed	−0.133	−4.85	<0.001	−0.104	−3.71	<0.001
Times exercise	---	---	---	−0.0577	−3.11	0.002
Times eat fruits or vegetables	---	---	---	−0.00590	−1.24	0.22
Hours TV watching	---	---	---	0.0213	5.44	<0.001
County sprawl index*	−0.0022	−1.57	0.12	−0.0026	−1.98	0.048

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