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. 2012 Sep;102(9):1706–1714. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300412

TABLE 2—

Allostatic Load Regressed on Neighborhood Poverty, Neighborhood Environment Stress, and Acute Life Events, and Alcohol Use: Healthy Environments Partnership Community Survey, Detroit, MI, 2002–2003

Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
B (SE) P B (SE) P B (SE) P B (SE) P
Intercept 2.436 (0.120) < .001 2.442 (0.124) < .001 2.261 (0.154) < .001 2.488 (0.145) < .001
Level 2 (block group)
Neighborhood poverty, % 0.012 (0.005) .019 0.011 (0.006) .066 0.011 (0.005) .03 0.010 (0.006) .086
Level 1 (individual)
Household poverty 0.301 (0.116) .01 0.308 (0.115) .008 0.283 (0.116) .016 0.268 (0.118) .023
Behavior measures
Alcohol use (1 = any) −0.323 (0.117) .007
Stress measures
Neighborhood environment stress 0.151 (0.070) .031 0.144 (0.070) .039
Acute life events 0.233 (0.119) .051 0.216 (0.127) .088
σ2 1.56 (0.036) 1.55 (0.039) 1.55 (0.037) 1.53 (0.039)

Note. Control variables include neighborhood percentage Non-Hispanic Black, neighborhood percentage Hispanic, and individual age, gender, household income below poverty, education, and race/ethnicity.