International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 3 Random effects model results

From: Urban sprawl, obesity, and cancer mortality in the United States: cross-sectional analysis and methodological challenges

	All cancers		Obesity related
	Coefficients	SE	Coefficients	SE
Females**
Current smoking	224.21*	20.2	85.85	12.75
Ln hispanic	0.55	1.1	−0.22	0.58
Ln NH black	10.50	1.0	6.62	0.62
Ln AIAPI	−3.31	1.2	−1.42	0.71
Ln MD density	5.35	1.5	1.00	0.88
Ln hospital density	−2.73	1.9	−1.77	1.11
Obesity	0.04	0.2	−0.02	0.16
SEP index	5.85	2.3	5.30	2.63
Uninsured	−60.89	24.1	37.52	31.85
AIC	8238	7124
Gener. chi-square/df	49474989	16970961
Males
Current smoking	207.90	20.95	34.96	6.64
Ln hispanic	0.06	1.13	−0.33	0.35
Ln NH black	4.02	1.07	1.32	0.33
Ln AIAPI	−5.22	1.26	−1.31	0.40
Ln MD density	4.48	5.05	−0.37	1.62
Ln hospital density	3.0	1.89	0.31	0.61
Obesity	1.26	0.29	0.22	0.09
SEP index	3.84	2.56	0.76	0.78
Uninsured	−140.89	24.06	−35.24	7.60
AIC	8165	6125
Gener. chi-square/df	45146764	4801908

*Coefficients in bold are significantly different from zero, p ≤ 0.05.
**Interactions Included in the models were statistically significant with p ≤ 0.01. For males: All cancers; MD*SEP, SEP*CD, MD* CD, and 2) Obesity related cancers; MD*SEP, SEP*CD, MD*CD, and for females: 1) All cancers: MD*SEP, SEP*CD and 2) Obesity related cancers: Smoking*SEP, Black*SEP, MD*SEP, SEP*CD, Uninsured*CD, Note that the variables name above are abbreviated MD = Physician density, CD = Census Division, SEP = Socioeconomic Position, NH = Non-Hispanic, and ‘Ln’ (natural log) has been removed.
Results for Census Division (CD) and CD*ln Sprawl are given in Table 4.

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