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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2009 Sep;37(3):214–219. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2009.04.024

Table 4.

Associations of neighborhood shelf-space of foods with BMI, by size of neighborhood around household^a

Shelf-space of each food	Coefficient (SE)
Shelf-space of each food	500 m	1 km	2 km
Fruits	0.010 (0.010)	0.001 (0.005)	−0.001 (0.002)
Vegetables	0.004 (0.006)	0.001 (0.003)	−0.000 (0.001)
Fruits and vegetables	0.003 (0.004)	0.000 (0.002)	−0.000 (0.001)
Candy	0.008 (0.005)	0.005 (0.002)^*	0.002 (0.001)^*
Salty snacks	0.009 (0.006)	0.005 (0.002)^*	0.001 (0.001)
Cookies	0.005 (0.005)	0.003 (0.002)	0.000 (0.001)
Soda	0.012 (0.006)^**	0.004 (0.002)^*	0.001 (0.001)
All snack foods	0.002 (0.001)	0.001 (0.001)^*	0.000 (0.000)

Each food shelf-space–neighborhood size coefficient is based on a separate, ordinary least-squares model, as displayed in Table 3, in which BMI is the dependent variable, and independent control variables include age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, income, and car ownership.

p<0.05

^**

p<0.01