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Table 4 Associations of Reported Fast Food and Other Restaurant Use (per week) with Numbers of Restaurants Within 2 Miles of Home*

From: Are fast food restaurants an environmental risk factor for obesity?

Independent variable

Dependent variable

N

β coefficient

P value

Number of fast food restaurants

Frequency of fast food restaurant use/wk

911

0.301

0.01

Number of other restaurants

Frequency of other restaurant use/wk

911

-0.034

0.71

Total number of restaurants

Frequency of any restaurant use/wk

913

0.083

0.24

  1. *Adjusted for age, education, and gender.
  2. Address failure
  3. 10.5% of home addresses failed to match (of 1030)
  4. 5.4% of work addresses failed to match (of 278)