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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2016 Apr 13;51(4):e99–e105. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.03.007

Table 3.

Average Weight Change Over 16 Years (1997-2011) per Interquartile Range (IQR) Change in Pollutants. Results Shown Separately for Cities With Low (<0.3), Moderate (0.3-0.5), and High (>0.5) Correlation Between Neighborhood SES and the Pollutantsa

SES and pollutant correlation at the city level
Low: |r|<0.3 Moderate:
0.3 < |r| < 0.5		 High: |r| >
0.5
PM2.5
IQR=2.9 μg/m3 		0.07 (−0.19,
0.34)
m=32 cities		 0.48 (−0.05,
1.01)
m=17 cities		 −1.04 (−2.59,
0.51)
m=7 cities
O3
IQR=6.7 ppm		 0.38 (−0.01,
0.78)
m=23 cities		 0.01 (−0.43,
0.45)
m=21 cities		 −0.37 (−1.34,
0.60)
m=12 cities
NO2
IQR=9.7 μg/m3 		−0.28 (−0.75,
0.19)
m=14 cities		 −0.78 (−1.41,
−0.16)
m=23 cities		 −1.39 (−2.88,
0.10)
m=18 cities

Note: Boldface indicates statistical significance (p<0.05).

a

Model adjusts for diet (western and prudent), menopausal status, education level, smoking status, vigorous activity, everyday racism, lifetime racism, height, age, neighborhood SES, weight at age 18 and time.