ArticleJournal of environmental and public health2012
Associations between resident perceptions of the local residential environment and metabolic syndrome.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Built environment and the evolution of cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.BMC medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Geographic and area-level socioeconomic variation in cardiometabolic risk factor distribution: a systematic review of the literature.International journal of health geographics · 2019Pooled it
- Built Environment, Selected Risk Factors and Major Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes: A Systematic Review.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
- Neighborhood walkability and cardiometabolic disease in Texas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Multilevel Mediators on the Associations of Neighborhood Social Environmental Factors and Severity of Metabolic Syndrome: The Jackson Heart Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Associations between dimensions of the social environment and cardiometabolic risk factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis.SSM - population health · 2024Review
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- The neighbourhood environment and profiles of the metabolic syndrome.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- The Neighborhood Environment and Hispanic/Latino Health.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Article
- Preventing Premature Atherosclerotic Disease.Current hypertension reports · 2020Review
- Associations of perceived neighborhood environment and physical activity with metabolic syndrome among Mexican-Americans adults: a cross sectional examination.BMC research notes · 2020Article
- Neighborhood crime is differentially associated with cardiovascular risk factors as a function of race and sex.Journal of public health research · 2019Article
- Correlates of Discordance between Perceived and Objective Distances to Local Fruit and Vegetable Retailers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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- Gender-specific associations between perceived and objective neighbourhood crime and metabolic syndrome.PloS one · 2018Article
- Changes in walking, body mass index, and cardiometabolic risk factors following residential relocation: Longitudinal results from the CARDIA study.Journal of transport & health · 2016Article
- Walkability and cardiometabolic risk factors: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Health & place · 2016Article
- Do relationships between environmental attributes and recreational walking vary according to area-level socioeconomic status?Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2015Article
- Neighborhood walkability, deprivation and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a population-based study on 512,061 Swedish adults.Health & place · 2015Article
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
A substantial body of research has arisen concerning the relationships between objective residential area features, particularly area-level socioeconomic status and cardiometabolic outcomes. Little research has explored residents' perceptions of such features and how these might relate to cardiometabolic outcomes. Perceptions of environments are influenced by individual and societal factors, and may not correspond to objective reality. Understanding relations between environmental perceptions and health is important for the development of environment interventions. This study evaluated associations between perceptions of local built and social environmental attributes and metabolic syndrome, and tested whether walking behaviour mediated these associations. Individual-level data were drawn from a population-based biomedical cohort study of adults in Adelaide, South Australia (North West Adelaide Health Study). Participants' local-area perceptions were analysed in cross-sectional associations with metabolic syndrome using multilevel regression models (n = 1, 324). A nonparametric bootstrapping procedure evaluated whether walking mediated these associations. Metabolic syndrome was negatively associated with greater local land-use mix, positive aesthetics, and greater infrastructure for walking, and was positively associated with greater perceived crime and barriers to walking. Walking partially mediated associations between metabolic syndrome and perceived environmental features. Initiatives targeting residents' perceptions of local areas may enhance the utility of environmental interventions to improve population health.
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