Table 2.

Correlations by season between exclusively “less-healthy”^a vending per capita, and mean neighborhood diet, diet-related health, and demographic characteristics

Mean Neighborhood Characteristicsb	Summer rc	p valued	Winter rc	p valued
Diet
Fruit and vegetable intake (servings of fruits/vegetables eaten yesterday)	−0.80	0.104	−0.50	0.391
Diet-related health
Body mass index [BMI] (reported weight [kg]/reported height2 [m2])	0.90	0.037	0.30	0.634
Prevalence of known diabetes (ever been told you have diabetes)	0.40	0.505	0.20	0.747
Prevalence of known hypercholesterolemia (ever been told you have high cholesterol)	0.90	0.037	0.80	0.104
Prevalence of known hypertension (ever been told you have high blood pressure)	0.90	0.037	0.70	0.188
Demographics
Non-white proportion (being any race other than “White”)	0.80	0.104	0.50	0.391
Hispanic proportion (reporting “Hispanic” as ethnicity)	0.80	0.104	0.90	0.037
Proportion not graduating high school (reporting less than full high-school education)	0.80	0.104	0.50	0.391
Proportion below 100% Federal Poverty Level (calculated from household annual income)	0.80	0.104	0.90	0.037

^a“Less-healthy” = offering only processed or prepared foods like bagged chips, preserved meats, and various confections

^bAll “neighborhood” characteristics derived from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Community Health Survey for 2010 by aggregating individual data to the level of the United Hospital Fund neighborhood

^cr = Spearman correlation coefficient

^dNominal p-values (not adjusted for multiple comparisons)