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. 2021 Feb 15;19:49. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-01902-z

Table 3.

Combined associations of fast-food outlet exposure and genetic risk score for BMI (BMI-GRS) with risk of obesity in the Fenland Study (n = 10,798), Cambridgeshire, UK, estimated using multinomial logistic regression with a single reference group. Overweight results shown in supplementary materials

Quartiles (Q) of fast-food outlet exposurea
Q1 (n = 4167) Q2 (n = 1360) Q3 (n = 3096) Q4 (n = 2175)
BMI-GRSb Obese/normal weight (n), % obesec RR (95% CI) Obese/normal weight (n), % obesec RR (95% CI) Obese/normal weight (n), % obesec RR (95% CI) Obese/normal weight (n), % obesec RR (95% CI)
Low (n = 5399) 392/836, 19.1 REF 122/286, 18.2 1.08d,e (0.83, 1.40) 308/620, 19.9 1.21d,e (0.99, 1.48) 179/555, 16.0 1.73d,e (1.27, 2.35)**
High (n = 5399) 559/682, 26.5 1.84d,e (1.55, 2.19)** 158/247, 22.9 1.54d,e (1.20, 1.98)* 413/493, 26.7 2.20d,e (1.81, 2.68)** 214/416, 20.3 2.70d,e (1.99, 3.66)**

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.001

aHome neighbourhood fast-food outlet exposure, quartiles (Q): Q1 (least exposed) = 0–1 outlets; Q2 = 2; Q3 = 3–14; Q4 (most exposed) = 15–51. Quartiles are unequal in sample size due to the distribution of the underlying data

bBMI-GRS, two groups split by sample median: low ≤ 2.29; high > 2.29

cPercent obese as a proportion of all participants, including those normal weight, overweight, and obese

dAdjusts for age, sex, household income, highest educational attainment, car access, smoking status, physical activity energy expenditure, counts of supermarkets in home neighbourhoods

eRRs relative to a single reference group (REF): those least exposed to fast-food outlets (Q1) and at lower BMI-GRS (low)