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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Aug;175(8):1311–1320. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2691

Table 3. Baseline Sociodemographic, Behavioral, and T2DM Risk Factor Characteristics by Tertiles of Baseline Neighborhood Summary Measuresa.

Tertiles
Summary of Healthy Food Environment
Summary of PA Environment
Summary of Social Environment
Characteristic All Participants
(N = 5124)
Low
(n = 1704)
Middle
(n = 1739)
High
(n = 1681)
Low
(n = 1785)
Middle
(n = 1705)
High
(n = 1634)
Low
(n = 1793)
Middle
(n = 1680)
High
(n = 1651)
Sociodemographic

 Age, mean (SD), y 60.7 (9.9) 60.7 (10.0) 61.9 (10.2) 61.8 (10.3) 61.0 (10.0) 61.3 (10.3) 62.3 (10.2) 60.9 (10.3) 61.9 (10.4) 61.7 (9.8)

 Female sex, No. (%) 2747 (53.6) 913 (53.6) 899 (51.7) 935 (55.6) 931 (52.2) 957 (56.1) 859 (52.6) 991 (55.3) 904 (53.8) 852 (51.6)

 Race/ethnicity, No. (%)

  White 2168 (42.3) 877 (51.5) 636 (36.6) 655 (39.0) 537 (30.1) 740 (43.4) 891 (54.5) 381 (21.2) 734 (43.7) 1053 (63.8)

  Black 1311 (25.6) 549 (32.2) 386 (22.2) 376 (22.4) 615 (34.5) 326 (19.1) 370 (22.6) 689 (38.4) 297 (17.7) 325 (19.7)

  Hispanic 1041 (20.3) 233 (13.7) 316 (18.2) 492 (29.3) 398 (22.3) 393 (23.0) 250 (15.3) 583 (32.5) 321 (19.1) 137 (8.3)

  Chinese American 604 (11.8) 45 (2.6) 401 (23.1) 158 (9.4) 235 (13.2) 346 (20.3) 123 (7.5) 140 (7.8) 328 (19.5) 136 (8.2)

 Household per capita income
 per $10 000, mean(SD)
51.8 (34.4) 51.6 (32.2) 49.3 (34.0) 54.7 (36.7) 43.5 (30.2) 48.2 (32.4) 64.4 (37.0) 39.6 (29.1) 49.5 (32.9) 67.4 (35.2)

 Educational level, mean (SD), y 13.4 (3.8) 13.6 (3.4) 13.2 (3.9) 13.5 (4.2) 12.6 (4.0) 13.2 (3.8) 14.6 (3.4) 12.2 (4.2) 13.5 (3.8) 14.7 (2.9)

Risk factors for T2DM

 Smoking status, No. (%)

  Former 1892 (36.9) 673 (39.5) 600 (34.5) 619 (36.8) 636 (35.6) 582 (34.1) 674 (41.2) 619 (34.5) 608 (36.2) 665 (40.3)

  Current 650 (12.7) 247 (14.5) 201 (11.6) 202 (12.0) 262 (14.7) 212 (12.4) 176 (10.8) 300 (16.7) 192 (11.4) 158 (9.6)

 Alcohol use, No. (%)b

  Moderate 1582 (30.9) 499 (29.3) 536 (30.8) 547 (32.5) 434 (24.3) 505 (29.6) 643 (39.4) 440 (24.5) 538 (32.0) 604 (36.6)

  Heavy 419 (8.2) 127 (7.5) 120 (6.9) 172 (10.2) 97 (5.4) 124 (7.3) 198 (12.1) 116 (6.5) 152 (9.0) 151 (9.1)

 Alternative Healthy Eating
 Index 2010, mean(SD)c
52.1 (11.7) 50.0 (11.8) 52.5 (11.2) 53.8 (11.9) 51.0 (11.5) 51.5 (11.7) 53.7 (12.0) 50.6 (11.6) 52.5 (11.6) 53.1 (12.0)

 Intentional PA fertile, %b

  Low 1821 (35.5) 642 (37.7) 644 (37.0) 535 (31.8) 775 (43.4) 598 (35.1) 448 (27.4) 727 (40.5) 611 (36.4) 483 (29.3)

  Middle 1599 (31.2) 526 (30.9) 563 (32.4) 510 (30.3) 537 (30.1) 542 (31.8) 520 (31.8) 511 (28.5) 562 (33.5) 526 (31.9)

  High 1704 (33.3) 536 (31.5) 532 (30.6) 636 (37.8) 473 (26.5) 565 (33.1) 666 (40.8) 555 (31.0) 507 (30.2) 642 (38.9)

 BMI, No. (%)

  25.0-29.9
  (overweight)
2044 (39.9) 686 (40.3) 706 (40.6) 652 (38.8) 716 (40.1) 674 (39.5) 654 (40.0) 703 (39.2) 655 (39.0) 686 (41.6)

  ≥30.0
  (obese)
1512 (29.5) 612 (35.9) 458 (26.3) 442 (26.3) 584 (32.7) 516 (30.3) 412 (25.2) 623 (34.7) 472 (28.1) 417 (25.3)

 Family history of T2DM, No. (%) 1791 (35.0) 665 (39.0) 615 (35.4) 511 (30.4) 685 (38.4) 582 (34.1) 524 (32.1) 640 (35.7) 595 (35.4) 556 (33.7)

Neighborhood

 Socioeconomic index, mean (SD)b 0.5 (1.3) −0.0 (0.8) 0.4 (0.9) 1.3 (1.6) −0.2 (0.8) 0.3 (0.9) 1.6 (1.4) −0.4 (0.9) 0.4 (1.4) 1.2 (1.4)

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in square meters); PA, physical activity; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus.

a

Data are from the Neighborhood Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2000 to 2012.25

b

Described in Table 2.

c

Described in Table 2. Data were missing for 595 participants.