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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2016 Jun 7;51(5):e119–e127. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.04.019

Table 3.

Difference in Mean BMI Between Participants Bypassing and Not Bypassing Nearby Resourcesa

Neighborhood resource Euclidean distance (d, miles) Driving time (t, min)
No bypassing du ≤ 1.0 Bypassing du >1.0 p-value No bypassing tu ≤ 5.0 Bypassing tu >5.0 p-value
BMI (kg/m2) ± se BMI (kg/m2) ± se
Grocery store 31.0 ± 0.6 (n = 116) 33.2 ± 0.8 (n = 114) 0.02* 31.2 ± 0.5 (n = 169) 33.3 ± 1.0 (n = 85) 0.03*

Pharmacy 32.1 ± 1.2 (n = 39) 31.7 ± 0.9 (n = 33) 0.6 32.3 ± 0.9 (n = 80) 34.5 ± 0.9 (n = 73) 0.04*

Outpatient provider 30.5 ± 1.9 (n = 16) 32.1 ± 0.6 (n = 189) 0.2 31.0 ± 1.5 (n = 24) 32.3 ± 0.5 (n = 211) 0.2

Place of worship 31.4 ± 1.0 (n = 52) 33.3 ± 0.9 (n = 89) 0.07 31.1 ± 0.9 (n = 62) 33.7 ± 0.9 (n = 82) 0.02*

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

a

For all resource types, this analysis was restricted to only those participants with ‘nearby’ resources, defined as ≤1 mile in the distance analysis (left) and ≤5 minutes in the time analysis (right). Participants without any nearby resources were excluded from each analysis.