ArticleObesity facts2017
Association between Childhood Obesity and Neighbourhood Accessibility to Fast-Food Outlets: A Nationwide 6-Year Follow-Up Study of 944,487 Children.
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- Fast-food restaurant, unhealthy eating, and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- The impact of a community-based intervention on weight, weight-related behaviours and health-related quality of life in primary school children in Victoria, Australia, according to socio-economic position.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- Built environment and childhood obesity.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2024Review
- Reasons and promotion strategies of physical activity constraints in obese/overweight children and adolescents.Sports medicine and health science · 2024Review
- Linking the Urban Environment and Health: An Innovative Methodology for Measuring Individual-Level Environmental Exposures.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Food Environment and Children's BMI: A New Framework with Structural Equation Modeling.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The Neighborhood Food Environment and the Onset of Child-Hood Obesity: A Retrospective Time-Trend Study in a Mid-sized City in China.Frontiers in public health · 2021Observational
- Fast food outlets, physical activity facilities, and obesity among adults: a nationwide longitudinal study from Sweden.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
- Deprivation matters: understanding associations between neighbourhood deprivation, unhealthy food outlets, unhealthy dietary behaviours and child body size using structural equation modelling.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2020Article
- Time-trends and correlates of obesity in Czech adolescents in relation to family socioeconomic status over a 16-year study period (2002-2018).BMC public health · 2020Article
- Family Income Gradients in Adolescent Obesity, Overweight and Adiposity Persist in Extremely Deprived and Extremely Affluent Neighbourhoods but Not in Middle-Class Neighbourhoods: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Association between Availability of Neighborhood Fast Food Outlets and Overweight Among 5⁻18 Year-Old Children in Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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objectivesThe aim of this 6-year follow-up study was to examine whether neighbourhood accessibility to fast-food outlets was associated with diagnosed childhood obesity, after adjustment for neighbourhood- and individual-level socio-demographic factors.
methodsThis 6-year follow-up study comprised 484,677 boys and 459,810 girls aged 0-14 years in Sweden. The follow-up period ran from January 1, 2005, until hospitalisation/out-patient treatment for obesity, death, emigration or the end of the study period on December 31, 2010. Multilevel logistic regression models (individual-level factors at the first level and neighbourhood-level factors at the second level) were used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).
resultsWe identified 6,968 obesity cases (3,878 boys and 3,090 girls) during the follow-up period. Higher odds of childhood obesity for those living in neighbourhoods with accessibility to fast-food outlets was observed (OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.07-1.22) that remained significant after adjustments (OR = 1.06, 95% CI = 1.00-1.13).
conclusionsThis prospective nationwide study showed that the neighbourhood accessibility to fast-food outlets was independently associated with increased odds of diagnosed childhood obesity. This finding implicates that residential environments should be considered when developing health promotion programmes.
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