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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Dec 11;65(2):137–143. doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.087379

Table 5a.

Associations between municipality characteristics and body mass index (overweight and obesity) and smoking (former smoker and current smoker), from multilevel logistic models adjusted for individual socioeconomic characteristics, GAZEL cohort, 1990–2000, men residing in high-urbanicity degree municipalities

Overweight (vs. normal weight) Obesity (vs. normal weight) Former smoker (vs. non-smoker) Current smoker (vs. non-smoker)

OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Percentage of CEOs in the municipality
 4th quartile 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 3rd quartile 0.91 (0.78 to 1.06) 0.80 (0.56 to 1.15) 1.14 (0.96 to 1.34) 1.17 (0.99 to 1.39)
 2nd quartile 1.05 (0.90 to 1.22) 1.08 (0.76 to 1.52) 1.10 (0.93 to 1.29) 1.11 (0.94 to 1.32)
 1rst quartile 1.02 (0.88 to 1.19) 0.99 (0.69 to 1.40) 1.13 (0.96 to 1.34) 1.30 (1.10 to 1.54)
Trend test p=0.54 p=0.61 p=0.22 p=0.02

Percentage of population with a university degree or equivalent
 4th quartile 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 3rd quartile 0.96 (0.83 to 1.12) 1.23 (0.85 to 1.80) 1.11 (0.94 to 1.31) 1.04 (0.88 to 1.23)
 2nd quartile 1.26 (1.08 to 1.47) 1.43 (0.98 to 2.01) 0.99 (0.83 to 1.17) 0.94 (0.79 to 1.12)
 1rst quartile 1.28 (1.10 to 1.50) 1.61 (1.11 to 2.35) 1.21 (1.01 to 1.44) 1.04 (0.95 to 1.35)
Trend test p<0.001 p<0.01 p<0.11 p=0.54