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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2012 Aug 25;67(3):271–279. doi: 10.1136/jech-2012-201157

Table 2.

Associations of number of fast-food restaurants at time t with weight changes from t to t +1

Body mass index
Waist-to-height ratio
Waist-to-hip ratio
Women Men Women Men Women Men
Rural sample
 Individual level
  Intercept 2.86 (0.17)*** 20.92 (25.56)*** 17.39 (0.51)*** 17.04 (0.51)*** 51.45 (0.93)*** 48.87 (1.04)***
  Baseline anthropometric −0.12 (0.01) *** −0.13 (0.01)*** −0.34 (0.01)*** −0.35 (0.01)*** −0.62 (0.01)*** −0.57 (0.01)***
  Year (ref =2000)
   2004 −0.12 (0.05)* −0.08 (0.05) −0.57 (0.13)*** −0.55 (0.13)*** −0.48 (0.16)** −0.33 (0.16)*
   2006 0.04 (0.05) 0.14 (0.06)* 0.37 (0.14)** 0.27 (0.13)* 0.09 (0.17) 0.20 (0.17)
  Age −0.14 (0.04) *** −0.29 (0.04)*** 0.91 (0.11)*** 0.17 (0.09) 1.44 (0.12)*** 0.37 (0.11)**
  Education (ref = no/primary)
   Junior high −0.08 (0.05) 0.05 (0.05) −0.27 (0.14) 0.22 (0.13) −0.50 (0.17)** 0.12 (0.16)
   Senior high −0.15 (0.08) 0.01 (0.07) −0.67 (0.21)** 0.08 (0.16) −1.14 (0.25)*** −0.04 (0.20)
  Household income 0.03 (0.02) 0.00 (0.02) 0.09 (0.06) 0.07 (0.06) 0.06 (0.07) 0.13 (0.07)
  Married (ref = no) 0.14 (0.07)* −0.01 (0.07) 0.17 (0.17) 0.19 (0.16) 0.63 (0.20)** 0.47 (0.20)*
  Drinking (ref = no) 0.09 (0.07) 0.08 (0.05) −0.17 (0.20) 0.31 (0.11)** −0.02 (0.23) 0.76 (0.14)***
  Smoking (ref = no) −0.12 (0.10) −0.11 (0.04)** −0.48 (0.26) −0.28 (0.11)* 0.00 (0.31) −0.19 (0.13)
  Heavy PA (ref = no) 0.11 (0.05)* −0.01 (0.05) −0.02 (0.13) −0.12 (0.13) −0.06 (0.15) −0.17 (0.16)
 Neighbourhood level
  Number of fast-food restaurants at t 0.02 (0.04) 0.05 (0.05) 0.34 (0.11)** 0.18 (0.10) 0.29 (0.14)* 0.06 (0.14)
  Number of population at t 0.06 (0.02)** 0.03 (0.03) 0.02 (0.06) 0.09 (0.05) 0.04 (0.07) 0.02 (0.07)
  Urbanicity index −0.01 (0.03) 0.02 (0.07) −0.36 (0.11)** −0.07 (0.09) −0.29 (0.13)* 0.08 (0.12)
  Region (ref = south)
   Northeast 0.20 (0.08)* 11.55 (16.17)** 0.43 (0.27) 0.79 (0.21)*** 0.42 (0.32) 0.93 (0.27)**
   Coastal 0.24 (0.08)** 11.54 (16.15)* 0.81 (0.27)** 0.92 (0.22)*** 0.46 (0.32) 0.91 (0.28)**
   Inland 0.20 (0.07)** 6.30 (9.56) 0.61 (0.24)* 0.83 (0.20)*** 0.64 (0.29)* 1.22 (0.25)***
 N 9466 8729 9521 8799 9578 8903
Urban sample
 Individual level
  Intercept 3.42 (0.96)* 3.62 (0.31)*** 18.19 (0.93)*** 17.46 (0.88)*** 50.77 (1.56)*** 53.74 (1.66)***
  Baseline anthropometric −0.14 (0.01)*** −0.15 (0.01)*** −0.36 (0.02)*** −0.35 (0.02)*** −0.62 (0.02)*** −0.63 (0.02)***
  Year (ref =2000)
   2004 −0.21 (0.09)* −0.44 (0.09)*** 0.30 (0.22) −0.34 (0.22) 0.20 (0.27) −0.06 (0.26)
   2006 −0.14 (0.09) −0.21 (0.09)* 0.58 (0.24)* 0.05 (0.23) −0.01 (0.29) −0.12 (0.28)
  Age −0.05 (0.06) −0.32 (0.06)*** 1.25 (0.17)*** 0.24 (0.14) 1.78 (0.20)*** 0.53 (0.17)**
  Education (ref = no/primary)
   Junior high 0.16 (0.10) −0.01 (0.11) 0.06 (0.26) −0.33 (0.26) −0.15 (0.32) −0.15 (0.32)
   Senior high −0.18 (0.11) −0.09 (0.11) −0.66 (0.27)* −0.43 (0.26) −0.73 (0.32)* 0.08 (0.32)
  Household income 0.00 (0.03) −0.02 (0.04) −0.07 (0.08) −0.03 (0.08) −0.06 (0.09) 0.04 (0.08)
  Married (ref = no) −0.04 (0.09) 0.11 (0.11) 0.20 (0.23) 0.22 (0.26) 0.35 (0.28) 0.66 (0.31)*
  Drinking (ref = no) 0.06 (0.11) 0.01 (0.07) 0.35 (0.28) 0.27 (0.17) 0.81 (0.34)* 0.64 (0.21)**
  Smoking (ref = no) −0.41 (0.20)* −0.10 (0.07) 0.27 (0.51) −0.15 (0.17) 0.04 (0.63) −0.31 (0.21)
  Heavy PA (ref = no) −0.03 (0.19) 0.03 (0.16) −0.12 (0.48) 0.22 (0.38) 0.48 (0.57) 0.68 (0.45)
 Neighbourhood level
  Number of fast-food restaurants at t −0.11 (0.04)** −0.01 (0.04) 0.07 (0.11) 0.03 (0.10) −0.10 (0.13) 0.10 (0.12)
  Number of population at t −0.03 (0.02) −0.03 (0.03) −0.11 (0.07) −0.03 (0.07) −0.08 (0.09) 0.01 (0.08)
  Urbanicity index 0.01 (0.09) 0.18 (0.10) −0.24 (0.28) 0.15 (0.26) 0.24 (0.34) 0.00 (0.32)
  Region (ref = south)
   Northeast 0.63 (2.41) 0.22 (0.15) −0.09 (0.51) 0.55 (0.42) 0.19 (0.64) 0.95 (0.57)
   Coastal 0.68 (2.59)* 0.21 (0.15) 0.23 (0.50) 0.78 (0.42) −0.81 (0.63) 0.03 (0.57)
   Inland 0.59 (2.86) 0.26 (0.14) 0.42 (0.46) 0.88 (0.38)* 1.07 (0.57) 1.16 (0.52)*
 N 4427 3879 4452 3908 4413 3853
*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001.

Numbers in parentheses are SEs.

PA, physical activity.