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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2012 Feb;42(2):129–135. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.10.012

Table 3.

Estimated associations (incidence rate ratios) between neighborhood food environment and dietary intake

Food Outlet Type Daily Food Consumption Child Adolescent
School Home School & Home School Home School & Home
Fast-food restaurant Fruits 1.003 (0.005) 0.999 (0.006) 1.002 (0.004) 1.007 (0.006) 0.991 (0.007) 1.000 (0.005)
Vegetables 0.997 (0.006) 0.992 (0.007) 0.994 (0.005) *1.017 (0.008) 1.004 (0.008) *1.012 (0.006)
100% juice 0.986 (0.009) 0.995 (0.009) 0.990 (0.007) 0.994 (0.010) 1.000 (0.009) 0.997 (0.007)
Milk 0.992 (0.004) 1.001 (0.005) 0.996 (0.003) / / /
Soda 1.006 (0.011) 1.021 (0.016) 1.010 (0.010) 0.989 (0.011) 1.005 (0.009) 0.997 (0.008)
High sugar food 0.998 (0.008) 1.005 (0.009) 0.999 (0.006) 1.029 (0.016) 0.983 (0.011) 1.007 (0.010)
Fast food 0.991 (0.010) 1.000 (0.012) 0.998 (0.008) 0.993 (0.012) 1.006 (0.012) 0.995 (0.008)

Convenience store Fruits 0.986 (0.015) 1.003 (0.015) 0.997 (0.011) 1.000 (0.021) 1.016 (0.020) 1.008 (0.015)
Vegetables 1.003 (0.019) 0.994 (0.019) 1.002 (0.014) 0.987 (0.026) 0.988 (0.022) 0.986 (0.017)
100% juice 0.989 (0.027) 0.984 (0.026) 0.984 (0.021) *0.930 (0.032) 0.979 (0.027) 0.961 (0.021)
Milk 0.993 (0.015) 1.016 (0.012) 1.008 (0.010) / / /
Soda 0.984 (0.036) 1.051 (0.030) 1.018 (0.024) 0.984 (0.039) *0.936 (0.031) *0.952 (0.024)
High sugar food 0.986 (0.027) 1.015 (0.024) 0.995 (0.018) 1.051 (0.055) 0.986 (0.043) 1.025 (0.041)
Fast food 0.987 (0.033) 0.984 (0.031) 0.987 (0.023) 1.005 (0.032) *0.935 (0.031) 0.965 (0.023)

Small food store Fruits 1.002 (0.005) 1.003 (0.004) 1.002 (0.003) 0.996 (0.007) 0.992 (0.006) 0.995 (0.004)
Vegetables 1.004 (0.005) 1.004 (0.005) 1.003 (0.003) 1.002 (0.010) 0.998 (0.005) 1.001 (0.004)
100% juice 1.007 (0.007) 1.006 (0.008) 1.005 (0.006) 0.988 (0.010) 1.004 (0.006) 0.999 (0.005)
Milk 0.998 (0.004) 0.996 (0.004) 0.998 (0.002) / / /
Soda 1.002 (0.011) 1.001 (0.008) 1.003 (0.006) 1.002 (0.009) 1.009 (0.006) 1.004 (0.005)
High sugar food 0.999 (0.007) 1.010 (0.005) 1.003 (0.004) 1.013 (0.015) 1.008 (0.008) 1.008 (0.007)
Fast food 1.006 (0.009) 0.996 (0.009) 1.003 (0.007) 1.010 (0.009) **1.017 (0.005) 1.009 (0.005)

Grocery store Fruits 1.015 (0.015) 1.002 (0.017) 1.004 (0.012) 0.962 (0.028) 0.982 (0.028) 0.980 (0.019)
Vegetables 1.015 (0.018) 0.980 (0.022) 0.998 (0.015) 0.995 (0.029) 0.971 (0.028) 0.988 (0.020)
100% juice 1.030 (0.030) 1.035 (0.028) 1.038 (0.021) 0.947 (0.036) 0.966 (0.038) 0.968 (0.028)
Milk 1.001 (0.015) 1.001 (0.015) 1.000 (0.011) / / /
Soda 1.013 (0.039) 0.960 (0.042) 0.987 (0.033) 1.023 (0.036) **1.088 (0.031) 1.050 (0.025)
High sugar food 1.022 (0.025) 1.041 (0.025) 1.019 (0.018) 0.960 (0.047) 1.019 (0.048) 0.988 (0.037)
Fast food 1.029 (0.035) 1.010 (0.032) 1.028 (0.025) 1.042 (0.043) *1.083 (0.034) 1.050 (0.029)

Large supermarket Fruits 1.009 (0.016) 1.022 (0.016) 1.018 (0.012) 1.020 (0.021) 1.016 (0.025) 0.016 (0.017)
Vegetables 0.996 (0.019) 0.988 (0.020) 0.986 (0.015) 1.001 (0.026) 1.026 (0.024) 1.008 (0.018)
100% juice 0.965 (0.030) 1.009 (0.028) 0.991 (0.022) 1.006 (0.029) 1.011 (0.030) 1.000 (0.022)
Milk 0.993 (0.021) 1.010 (0.021) 1.007 (0.017) / / /
Soda 0.995 (0.035) *1.078 (0.035) 1.036 (0.026) 1.038 (0.039) 0.988 (0.032) 1.011 (0.026)
High sugar food 0.955 (0.024) 1.043 (0.029) 0.996 (0.019) 1.033 (0.040) 0.928 (0.045) 0.967 (0.032)
Fast food 1.008 (0.031) 1.045 (0.031) 1.022 (0.025) 1.060 (0.036) *0.930 (0.036) 0.993 (0.026)

Note: Sample size is 8,226 for children 5–11 years old and 5,236 for adolescents 12–17 years old. Incidence rate ratio and its standard error (in parenthesis) using negative binomial models are reported. Responses are daily servings of fruit, vegetable, 100% juice, milk, soda, high sugar food, and fast food. Individual covariates in Table 1 and census tract characteristics in Table 2 are controlled. Neighborhood food environment is measured as the counts of a particular type of food outlet (e.g., supermarket) within circular buffer with 0.5-mile radius centering at a student’s school or home. “School & Home” denotes school AND residential food environment measured by the food outlet counts within the total area identified by the school and the home buffer. Statistics are adjusted using CHIS sampling weights. Eicker-Huber-White sandwich estimator is used to calculate standard errors.

*

P < 0.05;

**

P < 0.01.