ReviewObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2021
Walkability indices and childhood obesity: A review of epidemiologic evidence.
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- Assessing Obesity Risk: The Interaction of the Built and Food Environments with African Americans in Chicago.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Environmental phenotypes for healthy weight in children using population-based linked environment and health data: a cross-sectional observational study.Health & place · 2026Observational
- Adaptation and validation of the neighbourhood environment walkability scale for German-speaking youth (NEWS-Y-G).BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Associations between walkability and physical activity among children and adolescents: evidence from a gamified intervention.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Validity and reliability of the virtual audit tool for estimating built-environment characteristics in Taiwan.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Social disparities in exposures to neighbourhood obesogenic built environments in Czechia.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Association between obesogenic environments and childhood overweight/obesity across the United States: Differences by rurality.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Association between neighborhood environment and self-reported and objectively measured physical activity in Hispanic families.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Assessing the built environment through photographs and its association with obesity in 21 countries: the PURE Study.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Article
- The Built Environment and Childhood Obesity.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- The association between neighbourhood walkability and blood lipids: a Canadian population study.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Article
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- The longitudinal association between neighbourhood quality and cardiovascular risk factors among youth receiving obesity treatment.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Obesogenic neighborhood environment is associated with body fat and low-grade inflammation in Brazilian children: could the mother's BMI be a mediating factor?Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Characteristics of the obesogenic environment around schools are associated with body fat and low-grade inflammation in Brazilian children.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Association between racial residential segregation and walkability in 745 U.S. cities.Health & place · 2023Article
- Long-Term Exposure to Walkable Residential Neighborhoods and Risk of Obesity-Related Cancer in the New York University Women's Health Study (NYUWHS).Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Prospective associations of neighborhood healthy food access and walkability with weight status in a regional pediatric health system.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- City features related to obesity in preschool children: a cross-sectional analysis of 159 cities in six Latin American countries.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
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Abstract
The lack of an active neighbourhood living environment can impact community health to a great extent. One such impact manifests in walkability, a measure of urban design in connecting places and facilitating physical activity. Although a low level of walkability is generally considered to be a risk factor for childhood obesity, this association has not been established in obesity research. To further examine this association, we conducted a literature search on PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus for articles published until 31 December 2018. The included literature examined the association between measures of walkability (e.g., walkability score and walkability index) and weight-related behaviours and/or outcomes among children aged under 18 years. A total of 13 studies conducted in seven countries were identified, including 12 cross-sectional studies and one longitudinal study. The sample size ranged from 98 to 37 460, with a mean of 4971 ± 10 618, and the age of samples ranged from 2 to 18. Eight studies reported that a higher level of walkability was associated with active lifestyles and healthy weight status, which was not supported by five studies. In addition to reviewing the state-of-the-art of applications of walkability indices in childhood obesity studies, this study also provides guidance on when and how to use walkability indices in future obesity-related research.
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