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Published in final edited form as: Am J Public Health. 2010 Apr 15;100(6):1040–1046. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.172809

TABLE 3.

Parameter Estimates of Dual Latent Growth Models of Depressive Symptomatology and BMI, by Selected Respondent Characteristics: CARDIA Study; Birmingham, AL; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; and Oakland, CA; 1985–2006

	Slope of BMI Regressed on Intercept of Depression b (SE)	Slope of Depression Regressed on the Intercept of BMI b (SE)
Full sample	0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)
Gender
Women	0.01 (0.01)	0.00 (0.01)
Men	0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.02)
Race/ethnicity
Black	0.00^x (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)
White	0.02^**^y (0.01)	-0.01 (0.02)
Education
≤12 y	0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.02)
>12 y	0.01 (0.01)	-0.00 (0.01)

Note. BMI = body mass index. The total sample was N = 4643. Models controlled for age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education at year 5 and for smoking and alcohol use at years 5, 10, 15, and 20. Superscripts (^x,^y) that differ significantly across groups indicate significant changes in χ²_df (P < .05).

*P < .05

^**

P < .01

***P < .001