Table 4.

Neighborhood-level associations with prevalence of obesity (vs. overweight or normal) from Poisson regression models in a population of 11,562 children enrolled in a large means-tested preschool program in October 2004, New York City, NY

Neighborhood characteristic	Full Sample	Females	Males
	N=11,562	N=5,857	N=5,705
	PR [95% CI]	PR [95% CI]	PR [95% CI]
Percent poverty	0.87* [0.77,0.99]	0.88 [0.71,1.08]	0.86* [0.75,0.99]
Percent black	0.96 [0.87,1.05]	0.94 [0.82,1.08]	0.97 [0.84,1.10]
Percent foreign-born	1.04 [0.94,1.16]	1.01 [0.88,1.15]	1.08 [0.94,1.23]
Walkability Index	1.01 [0.90,1.13]	0.99 [0.83,1.17]	1.03 [0.88,1.21]
Percent area covered by small parks	0.99 [0.94,1.04]	1.00 [0.93,1.07]	0.98 [0.93,1.03]
Percent area covered by large parks	0.97 [0.91,1.04]	0.90 [0.80,1.01]	1.05 [0.95,1.17]
Density of street trees	0.88* [0.79,0.99]	0.85* [0.72,1.00]	0.94 [0.80,1.09]
Homicide rate	1.22** [1.05,1.41]	1.21 [0.96,1.54]	1.23** [1.06,1.44]
Pedestrian-auto fatalities	1.01 [0.93,1.09]	1.01 [0.90,1.12]	1.02 [0.92,1.12]

Notes: Values shown are from models adjusting for sex, race/ethnicity, age in months, and all neighborhood characteristics shown; neighborhood characteristics have been rescaled to have an interquartile range of 1