作者: Russ Lopez
DOI: 10.13016/OJZ5-OEIF
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摘要: This multilevel study explores the potential relationship between Black-White residential segregation and physical activity. It combines data on activity from 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a national telephone survey of adults overseen by Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC), with measure racial segregation. Using hierarchical linear modeling, it controlled age, sex, Black race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, income, amount urban sprawl. For each one-point increase in Dissimilarity Index (on 0–100 scale), modeled risk being physically inactive increased .7% (odds ratio [OR]51.007, 95% confidence interval [CI]51.003, 1.011). The was similar Blacks Whites, though not statistically significant Black-only analysis. finding may imply that pathway ill health includes inactivity.