ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2018
Neighborhood effects on body mass: Temporal and spatial dimensions.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Differences in liver and mortality outcomes of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by race and ethnicity: A longitudinal real-world study.Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2023Article
- Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood.Social science research · 2023Article
- Associations between socioeconomic status and risk of obesity and overweight among Chinese children and adolescents.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The Longitudinal Effect of Area Socioeconomic Changes on Obesity: a Longitudinal Cohort Study in the USA from 2003 to 2017.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Article
- The Effect of Neighborhood-level Resources on Children's Physical Development: Trajectories of Body Mass Index and Pubertal Development and the Influence of Child Biological Sex.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Do intersecting identities structure social contexts to influence life course health? The case of school peer economic disadvantage and obesity.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Observational
- Socioeconomic Status, Institutional Power, and Body Mass Index among Chinese Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Life Course Neighbourhood Deprivation and Self-Rated Health: Does It Matter Where You Lived in Adolescence and Do Neighbourhood Effects Build Up over Life?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The impact of life course exposures to neighbourhood deprivation on health and well-being: a review of the long-term neighbourhood effects literature.European journal of public health · 2020Review
- Neighborhood Poverty and Physical Health at Midlife: The Role of Life-Course Exposure.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- Using Electronic Medical Record Data to Better Understand Obesity in Hispanic Neighborhoods in El Paso, Texas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Ethnic Disparities in Adiposity: Focus on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Visceral, and Generalized Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
Research examining the effects of neighborhood characteristics on obesity and excess body weight has generally neglected the influence of both life-course exposure and geographically-proximate communities. Using data on 9357 respondents to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort, in conjunction with tract-level data from the 1980-2010 U.S. censuses, this study examines how black, Hispanic, and white individuals' cumulative exposure to varying levels of neighborhood poverty and co-ethnic density from their mid-teens through mid-adulthood, as well as the levels of poverty and co-ethnic density in nearby, or "extralocal," neighborhoods, are associated with their body mass index (BMI). Fixed-effect regression models show that, among Hispanics and whites, cumulative exposure to co-ethnic neighbors is a stronger positive predictor of BMI than the co-ethnic density of the immediate, point-in-time neighborhood. Among whites, cumulative exposure to neighborhood poverty is a stronger positive predictor of BMI than is the poverty rate of the current neighborhood of residence. And among both blacks and whites, the distance-weighted poverty rate of extralocal neighborhoods is significantly and inversely related to BMI, suggesting that relative affluence in nearby neighborhoods engenders relative deprivation among residents of the focal neighborhood, leading to increased BMI. Overall, the results suggest that greater attention to both the temporal and spatial dimensions of neighborhood effects has the potential to enhance our understanding of how neighborhoods affect obesity and related health outcomes.
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