Table 3:

Associations between Neighborhood Average Food Environment and Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) Score: Effect Measure Modification by Race/Ethnicity, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2000–2012.

	Non-Hispanic White	Chinese	Non-Hispanic Black	Hispanic
	(N=1607)	(N=396)	(N=875)	(N=756)
	Estimate (95% CI)	Estimate (95% CI)	Estimate (95% CI)	Estimate (95% CI)
Distance to favorable food stores (p=0.27)	−0.28 (−0.58, 0.02)	−0.11 (−1.49, 1.26)	−1.05 (−1.82, −0.29)	−0.95 (−2.00, 0.10)
Density of favorable food stores* (p=0.01)	0.91 (0.34, 1.48)	−0.47 (−3.27, 2.33)	1.71 (1.01, 2.41)	−0.22 (−0.82, 0.38)
Healthy food perception (survey)* (p=0.03)	0.52 (0.04, 1.00)	1.90 (0.44, 3.35)	1.21 (0.63, 1.79)	2.66 (1.74, 3.58)
Composite food environment (survey and GIS) (p=0.25)	0.85 (0.34, 1.37)	2.07 (0.14, 4.01)	1.73 (1.11, 2.35)	0.89 (0.14, 1.65)

^*p value displayed is for the interaction term between food environment measure and race/ethnicity; statistically significant using p<0.05 as the threshold.

Racial/ethnic groups are non-Hispanic unless otherwise noted

Three-level hierarchical random effect models assessed race/ethnicity-stratified average food environment score and average AHEI score over time and between individuals

Models adjust for age, sex, education, moving status, per capita adjusted income, neighborhood SES