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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Gerontol. 2015 May 13;36(6):692–708. doi: 10.1177/0733464815584670

Table 3.

Neighborhood Crime and BMI.

Normal BMI vs. obese
Normal BMI vs. overweight
Variables OR 95% CI p value OR 95% CI p value
Demographic
 Age 0.43 [0.19, 0.96] .03 1.24 [0.55, 2.79] .61
 Race
  White 1.00 Reference 1.00 Reference
  Black 1.55 [0.67, 3.57] .31 1.66 [0.72, 3.82] .24
 Gender
  Male 1.00 Reference 1.00 Reference
  Female 1.50 [0.60, 3.76] .40 0.70 [0.29, 1.66] .41
Social/economic
 Marital status
  Singlea 0.46 [0.19, 1.12] .09 0.51 [0.21, 1.24] .14
  Married 1.00 Reference 1.00 Reference
 Education
  <High school 7.33 [1.48, 36.31] .01 0.89 [0.24, 3.31] .87
  High school graduate 4.83 [1.18, 19.78] .03 0.76 [0.26, 2.25] .62
  College/associate degree 10.04 [2.31, 43.57] <.01 1.15 [0.35, 3.79] .82
  Bachelor’s and above 1.00 Reference 1.00 Reference
Neighborhood crime
 Very high 1.70 [0.14, 21.25] .68 12.24 [1.05, 142.41] .04
 High 0.59 [0.14, 2.41] .46 2.45 [0.63, 9.56] .20
 Average 1.29 [0.41, 3.98] .66 2.15 [0.63, 7.37] .22
 Low 0.85 [0.27, 2.65] .78 3.73 [0.08, 0.93] .02
 Very low 1.00 Reference 1.00 Reference
 Victim of crime 0.75 [0.26, 2.15] .59 0.15 [0.04, 0.66] .01
N 213

Note. BMI = body mass index; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.

a

Single includes widowed, separated, and divorced participants.