Table 3

Moran’s I and spatial lag regression model for select health outcomes and store densities, unadjusted and two adjusted models, of the 55 neighbourhoods of Baltimore City

Life expectancy at birth 
UnadjustedAdjusted†Adjusted‡
Neighbourhood variablesβ (95% CI)P valueβ (95% CI)P valueβ (95% CI)P value
Tobacco store density −0.13 (−0.05 to −0.22)<0.001*−0.12 (−0.03 to −0.17)<0.001*−0.10 (−0.02 to −0.23)0.004*
Alcohol store density−0.81 (−0.55 to −1.02)<0.001*−0.32 (−0.13 to −0.52)<0.001*
Fast food store density−0.15 (−0.01 to −0.19)0.01*−0.13 (−0.08 to 0.10)0.10
Median household income §2.3 (3.7 to 120.0)<0.001*0.17 (−32.4 to 2.1)0.590.1 (−0.12 to 0.21)0.49
African-American (%)−8.2 (−2.2 to −17.2)<0.001*−2.8 (−0.3 to −5.7)0.02*−2.1 (−4.3 to 1.8)0.07
Bachelor’s degree16.4 (9.8 to 25.9)<0.001*11.8 (4.2 to 33.5)<0.001*12.6 (7.2 to 29.3)<0.001*
Age > 65 years (%)48.3 (30.1 to 67.2)0.006*14.2 (−0.03 to  22.2)0.0612.9 (−10.2 to 21.2)0.13