Table 2.

Associations between area-level unemployment, body mass index (BMI) and total cardiometabolic risk (TCR) (n = 342).

		Model 1†	Model 2a‡	Model 3§	Model 4#
		Beta (95% CI)	Beta (95% CI)	Beta (95% CI)	Beta (95% CI)
BMI	ALU4*	2.69 (2.40, 3.00)	3.19 (2.39, 3.99)	2.71 (1.93, 3.49)	2.11 (1.03, 3.19)
	ALU3	1.67 (1.12, 2.22)	2.16 (1.71, 2.61)	1.71 (1.14, 2.78)	1.51 (0.55, 2.47)
	ALU2	0.50 (0.11, 0.90)	1.56 (0.46, 2.66)	1.37 (0.59, 2.15)	1.09 (−0.20, 2.38)
		PR (95% CI)	PR (95% CI)	PR (95% CI)	PR (95% CI)
TCR	ALU4*	1.60 (1.47, 1.73)	2.20 (1.53, 3.17)	1.85 (1.32, 2.59)	1.82 (1.35, 2.44)
	ALU3	1.50 (1.36, 1.65)	1.84 (1.44, 2.33)	1.60 (1.25, 2.04)	1.66 (1.33, 2.07)
	ALU2	1.16 (1.07, 1.25)	1.42 (0.99, 2.03)	1.28 (0.92, 1.77)	1.37 (0.97, 1.94)

^*Referent is first (lowest) quartile throughout. GEEs were used for all models with a Normal distribution (identity link function) for BMI and a Poisson distribution (log link function) for TCR.

^†Model 1 included age, gender, and smoking status.

^‡Model 2 included age, gender, smoking status, and area-level education.

^§Model 3 included age, gender, smoking status, area-level education, and individual education, income and employment status.

^#Model 4 included age, gender, smoking status, area-level education, individual education, income and employment status, physical activity, fast-food consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption and alcohol consumption.