SynthesisJournal of community health2015
Measuring the food environment and its effects on obesity in the United States: a systematic review of methods and results.
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Who cites it
94 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between body mass index at different levels and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a systematic review with dose-response meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Pooled it
- Food environment research in Canada: a rapid review of methodologies and measures deployed between 2010 and 2021.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
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- Systematic literature review of instruments that measure the healthfulness of food and beverages sold in informal food outlets.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Pooled it
- The association between adverse childhood experiences and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Associations between the built environment and obesity: an umbrella review.International journal of health geographics · 2021Pooled it
- The Food Environments of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in East and Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Measurement Methods Used to Assess the School Food Environment: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Impact of neighbourhood food environment on diet and obesity in China: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- Neighbourhood retail food outlet access, diet and body mass index in Canada: a systematic review.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2019Pooled it
- A Systematic Review on Socioeconomic Differences in the Association between the Food Environment and Dietary Behaviors.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Food environments and dietary intakes among adults: does the type of spatial exposure measurement matter? A systematic review.International journal of health geographics · 2018Pooled it
- What is the effectiveness of obesity related interventions at retail grocery stores and supermarkets? -a systematic review.BMC public health · 2016Pooled 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
- Income, Healthy Food Availability, and Consumption Mediate Rural-Urban Health Disparities.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Measurement tools to assess the obesogenic environment in neighborhood: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Life-course socioeconomic status and obesity: scoping review.Population health metrics · 2025Article
- The emergence of meal delivery applications: a research agenda to advance the next decade of progress in nutrition.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Review
- Data-driven nutritional assessment of urban food landscapes: insights from Boston, London, and Dubai.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
We identified fifty-one peer-reviewed studies that geospatially analyzed the relationship between the community nutrition environment (CNE) and obesity. Eighty percent of studies found at least one significant association between the CNE and obesity. However we calculated the proportion of studies that found at least one significant association between the CNE and obesity in the expected direction for each food store type and measurement technique, and the proportion across the different store types and measurement techniques was just 32%. Different methods for classifying, locating, and analyzing food stores produced mixed results and challenged direct study level comparison.
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