Neighbourhood green space, physical function and participation in physical activities among elderly men: the Caerphilly Prospective study

Table 2 Odd Ratios (OR) for reported regular participation in physical activities

N = 1010	Model 1			Model 2
	OR^a	95% CI^b	P	OR^a	95% CI^b	P
Amount of neighbourhood green space^c (%)	1.25	1.09, 1.44	0.002	1.21	1.05, 1.41	0.008
High variation in vegetation (vs. low)	0.88	0.67, 1.14	0.338	0.88	0.67, 1.16	0.375
Non-urban area (vs. urban area)	1.11	0.79, 1.56	0.553	1.01	0.76, 1.55	0.639
Townsend deprivation scores (vs. lowest deprivation)
Lower deprivation	0.59	0.37, 0.93	0.023	0.64	0.40, 1.02	0.059
Middle deprivation	0.74	0.49, 1.13	0.166	0.92	0.59, 1.43	0.714
High deprivation	0.54	0.38, 0.76	<0.001	0.68	0.47, 0.99	0.042
Highest deprivation	0.46	0.31, 0.69	<0.001	0.63	0.41, 0.97	0.034
Good lower extremity physical function (vs. poor)				2.10	1.55, 2.85	<0.001
No psychological distress (vs. yes)				1.04	0.73, 1.47	0.844
Good general health (vs. poor)				1.41	1.04, 1.90	0.025
CSE-level and above education (vs. no)				0.98	0.72, 1.31	0.874
Own one or more car (vs. none)				1.59	1.15, 2.20	0.005
Age <=75 (vs. >75)				1.14	0.87, 1.50	0.353
Married (vs. single, window, divorced)				0.99	0.66, 1.50	0.969
Manual social class (vs. non-manual)				1.06	0.78, 1.44	0.705

^aOR: Odds ratio, ^b95% CI: 95% Confidence Interval, ^cModelled as a standardized z-score.

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