ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2021
Comparing competing geospatial measures to capture the relationship between the neighborhood food environment and diet.
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- Measuring associations between the food environment and dietary habits: comparing the proportion and density of food outlets.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Is alcohol outlet availability associated with binge drinking in Canadian young adults? Findings from British Columbia and Quebec.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024Article
- Intake of Snacks and Sweets in a National Study of Built and Social Environments: the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Influence of the food environment on obesity risk in a large cohort of US veterans by community type.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Article
- Assessing the association between food environment and dietary inflammation by community type: a cross-sectional REGARDS study.International journal of health geographics · 2023Article
- Impact of the built, social, and food environment on long-term weight loss within a behavioral weight loss intervention.Obesity science & practice · 2023Article
- Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in US Counties From 2009 to 2018.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Impact of land use and food environment on risk of type 2 diabetes: A national study of veterans, 2008-2018.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Associations and Mediation Through Food Environment Pathways in Three Independent Study Samples.Diabetes care · 2022Article
- Longitudinal Analysis of Neighborhood Food Environment and Diabetes Risk in the Veterans Administration Diabetes Risk Cohort.JAMA network open · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo examine how the choice of neighborhood food environment definition impacts the association with diet.
methodsUsing food frequency questionnaire data from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study at baseline (2003-2007), we calculated participants' dietary inflammation score (DIS) (n = 20,331); higher scores indicate greater pro-inflammatory exposure. We characterized availability of supermarkets and fast food restaurants using several geospatial measures, including density (i.e., counts/km
resultsThe choice of buffer-based measure did not change the direction or magnitude of associations with DIS. Effect estimates derived from administrative units were smaller than those derived from tailored empirically derived buffer measures. Substantively, a 10% increase in the percentage of fast food restaurants using a "classic" network buffer was associated with a 6.3 (SE = 1.17) point higher DIS (P< .001). The relationship between the percentage of supermarkets and DIS, however, was null. We observed high correlation coefficients between buffer-based density measures of supermarkets and fast food restaurants (r = 0.73-0.83), which made it difficult to estimate independent associations by food outlet type.
conclusionsResearchers should tailor buffer-based measures to community type in future studies, and carefully consider the theoretical and statistical implications for choosing relative (vs. absolute) measures.
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