ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2014
Perception of neighborhood crime and drugs increases cardiometabolic risk in Chilean adolescents.
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- Neighborhood Safety and Hypertension Risk: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Pooled it
- Cardio-metabolic risk among healthcare providers: A latent profile study.Journal of cardiovascular and thoracic research · 2025Article
- A tale of many neighborhoods: Latent profile analysis to derive a national neighborhood typology for the US.Health & place · 2024Article
- The Perceived Neighborhood Crime and Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Youth in University of the Northeastern Thailand Context.Journal of research in health sciences · 2020Article
- Preventing Premature Atherosclerotic Disease.Current hypertension reports · 2020Review
- Associations of the Neighborhood Environment With Substance Use: A Cross-sectional Investigation Among Patients in Compulsory Drug Detention Centers in Thailand.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2018Article
- Do neighborhood characteristics in Amsterdam influence adiposity at preschool age?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
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- Healthy Chilean Adolescents with HOMA-IR ≥ 2.6 Have Increased Cardiometabolic Risk: Association with Genetic, Biological, and Environmental Factors.Journal of diabetes research · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeStudies report an association between neighborhood risk and both obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMR) among adolescents. Here we describe the effect of perceived neighborhood risk on adiposity and CMR among Chilean adolescents.
methodsParticipants were 523 low- to middle-income Chilean adolescents. We assessed neighborhood risk in early adolescence, adiposity in childhood and in early and later adolescence, and blood pressure and fasting glucose in later adolescence. Neighborhood risk profiles were estimated using latent profile analysis (LPA) and based on reported perceptions of crime and drug sales/use. Using linear and logistic regression, we examined the effect of neighborhood risk on adiposity and CMR.
resultsMean age in early and later adolescence was 14 and 17 years, respectively. Participants were 52% male, with a mean BMI z-score of .67, and 8% met criteria for metabolic syndrome. LPA identified two neighborhood profiles: 61% low risk and 39% high risk. In later adolescence, being in the high risk profile predicted a higher BMI z-score, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass index (p < .05). Adolescents in the high risk profile had three times greater odds of meeting criteria for metabolic syndrome (OR = 3.1, 95% CI: 1.5, 5.8) compared with those in the low risk profile.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that there are physiological responses to living in a neighborhood perceived as "risky," which may contribute to obesity and CMR even in adolescence. For Chilean neighborhoods with high crime and drugs, targeted public health interventions and policies for youth could be beneficial.
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