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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2013 Oct 8;24:10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.09.007. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.09.007

Table 3.

Odds ratios of meeting recommended levels of walking (≥150 min/week) by transportation walking associated with accessibility, intensity, and diversity of five discrete land use categories in MESA 2000–2002. (n=1975, neighborhood n=331)

North Carolinaa
(n=970)
New Yorka
(n=1005)

Discrete Land Use OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
Accessibility (1 site-specific standard deviation increase in distance) Social 0.96 (0.87, 1.06) 0.85 (0.73, 0.97)**
Night 0.98 (0.90, 1.07) 0.95 (0.82, 1.10)
Physical Activity 1.02 (0.92, 1.14) 0.93 (0.81, 1.08)
Auto-Oriented 0.93 (0.81, 1.06) 1.00 (0.85, 1.18)
Parking 0.97 (0.87, 1.09) 1.03 (0.88, 1.21)

Intensity (1 site-specific standard deviation increase in count) Social 1.05 (0.92, 1.20) 1.09 (0.95, 1.26)
Night 0.99 (0.88, 1.11) 1.15 (0.99, 1.35)*
Physical Activity 1.00(0.84, 1.18) 1.16 (0.99, 1.35)*
Auto-Oriented 1.02 (0.92, 1.14) 0.96 (0.83, 1.12)
Parking 0.98 (0.90, 1.08) 0.91 (0.78, 1.05)

Diversity (1 type of land use increase) All five uses 1.06 (0.99, 1.14) 1.03 (0.77, 1.38)
a

Model adjusted for individual characteristics: age, race/ethnicity, gender, income, education and mode of questionnaire administration. Accounts for clustering by census tract.

*

p<0.1

**

p<0.05