Table 1.

County-level association between age-adjusted diabetes prevalence in adult African American Medicaid recipients and environmental characteristics

Environmental Characteristic	Statistical Model
	Bivariate-Ordered Category	Multivariate-Ordered Category
Persistent Poverty	OR = 3.9	OR = 2.5
	95% CI [1.06-14.53]	95% CI [0.63-10.10]
	P = 0.040	P = 0.191
Unemployment	OR = 1.7
	95% CI [0.75-4.03]
	P = 0.198
Rurality	OR = 3.6	OR = 3.1
	95% CI [1.47-8.76]	95% CI [1.21-7.83]
	P = 0.005	P = 0.018
Fast Food	OR = 0.4
Restaurants	95% CI [0.09-1.41]
Per Capita	P = 0.140
Convenience	OR = 1.5
Stores	95% CI [0.41-5.63]
Per Capita	P = 0.526

The multivariate model included only those predictor variables that were significant in bivariate models at the .05 alpha level. OR = odds ratio.