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SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2009

Physical environmental correlates of childhood obesity: a systematic review.

G F Dunton, J Kaplan, J Wolch, M Jerrett, K D Reynolds

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

129 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Access to public transport and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021
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  4. State-of-the-art of measures of the obesogenic environment for children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021
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  6. Maternal and early-life area-level characteristics and childhood adiposity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019
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  7. Influence of neighbourhood safety on childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

G F DuntonDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA. dunton@usc.edu
J Kaplan
J Wolch
M Jerrett
K D Reynolds

Funding

USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics*U54CA116848 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI GORAN, MICHAEL ISAAC · 2005 to 2010
$12.1M
NCI NIH HHS 1 U54 CA 116848-01NCI NIH HHS U54 CA116848
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing rates of childhood obesity in the USA and other Western countries are a cause for serious public health concern. Neighborhood and community environments are thought to play a contributing role in the development of obesity among youth, but it is not well understood which types of physical environmental characteristics have the most potential to influence obesity outcomes. This paper reports the results of a systematic review of quantitative research examining built and biophysical environmental variables associated with obesity in children and adolescents through physical activity. Literature searches in PubMed, PsychInfo and Geobase were conducted. Fifteen quantitative studies met the inclusion criteria for this systematic review. The majority of studies were cross-sectional and published after 2005. Overall, few consistent findings emerged. For children, associations between physical environmental variables and obesity differed by gender, age, socioeconomic status, population density and whether reports were made by the parent or child. Access to equipment and facilities, neighborhood pattern (e.g. rural, exurban, suburban) and urban sprawl were associated with obesity outcomes in adolescents. For most environmental variables considered, strong empirical evidence is not yet available. Conceptual gaps, methodological limitations and future research directions are discussed.

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EnvironmentExerciseAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHealth PolicyHumansMaleObesityPrevalenceSocial Environment

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PMID19389058
PMCPMC3833101

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