ArticlePreventive medicine reports2015
Neighbourhood environments and obesity among adults: A multilevel analysis of an urban Brazilian context.
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- The influence of the urban food environment on diet, nutrition and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2021Pooled it
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- Food insecurity, nutritional status and socioeconomic factors in the transgender population: a cross-sectional study in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2023.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2024Article
- Is food environment associated with body mass index, overweight and obesity? A study with adults and elderly subjects from southern Brazil.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Comments on the Article: "Food Environment Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review".Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Reply to LL Mendes et al.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Factors Influencing the Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis among Contacts in Congregated Settings in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2019Article
- Obesity and Urban Environments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Nutrition status of children in Latin America.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Review
- Contextual influences affecting patterns of overweight and obesity among university students: a 50 universities population-based study in China.International journal of health geographics · 2017Article
- Local food environment and fruit and vegetable consumption: An ecological study.Preventive medicine reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Objective. This study identified environmental variables associated with obesity in the adult population of a city in Brazil. Methods. It was conducted using the Surveillance System for Risk and Protective Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey from 2008 to 2010. The body mass index (BMI) was calculated from the participants' self-reported weight and height. Obesity was defined as a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2. The food establishments, georeferenced areas conducive to physical activity, total income of the neighbourhood, homicide rate and population density were used to characterise the environment. In addition, individual variables were considered. A multilevel logistic regression was performed. Results. A total of 5273 individuals were evaluated. The odds of obesity was found to be significantly decreased with increases in the number of establishments that sell healthy food, number of restaurants, number of places for physical activity and total income - in different models. In addition, these associations remained significant after adjustment for age, gender, education and consumption of meat with visible fat. Conclusions. This study contributes to a better understanding of the complex interaction between environmental and individual determinants of obesity and may aid in the development of effective interventions, such as the expansion of obesity control programmes.
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