ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2016
Beyond Access: Characteristics of the Food Environment and Risk of Diabetes.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Association between Community Food Environments and Health Outcomes in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Built environmental characteristics and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Environmental Risk Factors for Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- How does high-density built-environment affect the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus.iScience · 2026Article
- A return to the environment in epidemiology: multilevel analysis of diabetes mellitus in a large urban agglomeration of Argentina.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Local environmental attributes and type 2 diabetes: Green amenities, walkability indicators, and air pollution are associated with incidence.Environment international · 2025Article
- Neighborhood Retail Food Environment, Diet Quality and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence in 4 Dutch Cohorts.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Disparities in neighborhood food environment and cognitive decline among US older adults: a cohort study.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Access to SNAP-Authorized Retailers and Diet Quality Among SNAP Recipients.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Interactive visualization tool to understand and monitor health disparities in diabetes care and outcomes.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- The role of social support and the built environment on diabetes management among structurally exposed populations in three regions in Ghana.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Association of County-Level Food Deserts and Food Swamps with Hepatopancreatobiliary Cancer Outcomes.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2023Article
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education reductions during COVID-19 may have exacerbated health inequities.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The Impact of Neighborhoods on Diabetes Risk and Outcomes: Centering Health Equity.Diabetes care · 2023Review
- Social and Medical Determinants of Diabetes: A Time-Constrained Multiple Mediator Analysis.Cureus · 2023Article
- The changing food environment and neighborhood prevalence of type 2 diabetes.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The role of neighborhood inequalities on diabetes prevention care: a mini-review.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2023Review
- Impact of land use and food environment on risk of type 2 diabetes: A national study of veterans, 2008-2018.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Food environment and diabetes mellitus in South Asia: A geospatial analysis of health outcome data.PLoS medicine · 2022Article
- Environmental risk factors of type 2 diabetes-an exposome approach.Diabetologia · 2022Review
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Abstract
Characteristics of the built environment, including access to unhealthy food outlets, are hypothesized to contribute to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). Swedish nationwide registry data on 4,718,583 adults aged 35-80 years living in 9,353 neighborhoods, each with at least 1 food outlet, were geocoded and linked to commercial registers (e.g., restaurants and grocery stores). Multilevel logistic regression was used to examine the prospective relationship between characteristics of the food environment and T2D from 2005 to 2010. Relative access to health-harming food outlets was associated with greater likelihood of both prevalent and incident T2D in a curvilinear manner, with the highest risk being observed for environments in which one-third of outlets were health-harming. Relative to individuals whose food environment did not change, those who moved into areas with more health-harming food outlets had higher odds of developing T2D (odds ratio = 3.67, 95% confidence interval: 2.14, 6.30). Among those who did not move, living in an area that gained relative access to health-harming food outlets was also associated with higher odds of T2D (odds ratio = 1.72, 95% confidence interval: 1.27, 2.33). These results suggest that local food environment, including changes that result in greater access to unhealthy food outlets, is associated with T2D.
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