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Published in final edited form as: J Public Health Manag Pract. 2012 Sep-Oct;18(5):402–411. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e318221718c

Table 2.

Relationship between obesity prevalence in the LHD jurisdiction and the likelihood of having obesity prevention activities: Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) from multi-level models with state-level clustering of LHD jurisdictions

			Crude		Adjusted for size of population served

			OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI

Obesity prevalence quartiles	Freq.	%
Quartile 1 (≤ 23.4 %)	260	44.6	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2 (23.5–25.9 %)	346	61.0	1.22	(0.85, 1.74)	1.49	(1.04, 2.16)
Quartile 3 (26.0–27.6 %)	326	57.6	1.13	(0.78, 1.64)	1.45	(0.98, 2.13)
Quartile 4 (27.7+ %)	328	57.8	1.09	(0.73, 1.63)	1.48	(0.98, 2.23)