ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2012
Patterns of obesogenic neighborhood features and adolescent weight: a comparison of statistical approaches.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Differences by Sex and Gender in the Relationship Between Urban Greenness and Cardiometabolic Health: A Systematic Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Pooled it
- The built environment as determinant of childhood obesity: A systematic literature review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Association between access to convenience stores and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- 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 · 2021Pooled it
- Association between access to full-service restaurants and childhood obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Access to public transport and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
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- Neighborhood supermarket access and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- 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 · 2017Pooled it
- The relationship of the local food environment with obesity: A systematic review of methods, study quality, and results.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2015Pooled it
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- A tale of many neighborhoods: Latent profile analysis to derive a national neighborhood typology for the US.Health & place · 2024Article
- An examination of the relationships between the neighborhood social environment, adiposity, and cardiometabolic disease risk in adolescence: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- HOW CLOSE AND HOW MUCH? LINKING HEALTH OUTCOMES TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS.The annals of applied statistics · 2023Article
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- Neighborhood built environment typologies and adiposity in children and adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
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- Longitudinal association of built environment pattern with DXA-derived body fat in elderly Hong Kong Chinese: a latent profile analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- Adolescent's movement behaviors and built environment: a latent class analysis.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundFew studies have addressed the potential influence of neighborhood characteristics on adolescent obesity risk, and findings have been inconsistent. PURPOSE: Identify patterns among neighborhood food, physical activity, street/transportation, and socioeconomic characteristics and examine their associations with adolescent weight status using three statistical approaches.
methodsAnthropometric measures were taken on 2682 adolescents (53% female, mean age=14.5 years) from 20 Minneapolis/St. Paul MN schools in 2009-2010. Neighborhood environmental variables were measured using GIS data and by survey. Gender-stratified regressions related to BMI z-scores and obesity to (1) separate neighborhood variables; (2) composites formed using factor analysis; and (3) clusters identified using spatial latent class analysis in 2012.
resultsRegressions on separate neighborhood variables found a low percentage of parks/recreation, and low perceived safety were associated with higher BMI z-scores in boys and girls. Factor analysis found five factors: away-from-home food and recreation accessibility, community disadvantage, green space, retail/transit density, and supermarket accessibility. The first two factors were associated with BMI z-score in girls but not in boys. Spatial latent class analysis identified six clusters with complex combinations of both positive and negative environmental influences. In boys, the cluster with highest obesity (29.8%) included low SES, parks/recreation, and safety; high restaurant and convenience store density; and nearby access to gyms, supermarkets, and many transit stops.
conclusionsThe mix of neighborhood-level barriers and facilitators of weight-related health behaviors leads to difficulties disentangling their associations with adolescent obesity; however, statistical approaches including factor and latent class analysis may provide useful means for addressing this complexity.
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