ArticleBMC pediatrics2021
The association between living environmental factors and adolescents' body weight: a cross-sectional study.
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- Effect of Diet and Lifestyle Changes on Gut Microbial Diversity in Healthy Adolescents.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Exploring the multifaceted factors influencing overweight and obesity: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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backgroundThe effect of the living environment on public health has received increasingly scholarly attention. This study aims to explore the relationship between adolescents' body weight and their living environmental factors.
methodsThis cross-sectional study comprised 1362 middle-school students from Nanjing and 826 from Changzhou in China. We further collected information on living environmental factors based on their home address and ran multivariate logistic regressions to explore potential correlations after considering a range of potential confounding factors.
resultsApproximately 25% (n = 303) of students from Nanjing and 26% (n = 205) of students from Changzhou were excessive body weight. In Nanjing, students' BMI (Body Mass Index) showed a strong negative correlation with the number of sports venues in their neighborhood (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR): 0.64, 95%CI: 0.40-0.94) after controlling for other covariates. In Changzhou, we observed a positive correlation between adolescents' body weight and the number of bus stops in their neighbourhood (AOR:1.63, 95%CI:1.11-2.38).
conclusionsThe living environment factors were independently associated with teenagers' excessive body weight. We hypothesis that the environmental risk factors might be associated with political management, which will consequently affect personal health outcomes. Further research and proactive measures are required to manage those potential risks and attenuate the problem.
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