ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2023
Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment characteristics index for the Netherlands.
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- Socioeconomic inequalities in exposure to neighbourhood environments for physical activity: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Pooled it
- Identifying co-occurring neighbourhood environmental patterns and their association with health behaviours in a Dutch urban population at high cardiometabolic risk.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Interconnected environments and the mental health of young people in Aotearoa New Zealand: a longitudinal geospatial study.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- The Association between the Obesogenic Environment and BMI Independent of Familial Factors: A Cross-Sectional Twin Study.Obesity facts · 2026Article
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- Association between the Dutch Obesogenic Built-environmental CharacterisTics (OBCT) index and 14-year cardiovascular disease incidence: a population-based cohort study of 4.4 million adults.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2025Article
- Advancing knowledge, maps and tools to address obesity and related socio-economic disparities in Europe: the OBCT project.Global health action · 2025Article
- Measurement tools to assess the obesogenic environment in neighborhood: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Social disparities in exposures to neighbourhood obesogenic built environments in Czechia.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Comprehensive mapping of the AOP-Wiki database: identifying biological and disease gaps.Frontiers in toxicology · 2024Article
- A positive neighborhood walkability is associated with a higher magnitude of leisure walking in adults upon COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment characteristics index for the Netherlands.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveEnvironmental factors that drive obesity are often studied individually, whereas obesogenic environments are likely to consist of multiple factors from food and physical activity (PA) environments. This study aimed to compose and describe a comprehensive, theory-based, expert-informed index to quantify obesogenicity for all neighborhoods in the Netherlands.
methodsThe Obesogenic Built Environment CharacterisTics (OBCT) index consists of 17 components. The index was calculated as an average of componential scores across both food and PA environments and was scaled from 0 to 100. The index was visualized and summarized with sensitivity analysis for weighting methods.
resultsThe OBCT index for all 12,821 neighborhoods was right-skewed, with a median of 44.6 (IQR = 10.1). Obesogenicity was lower in more urbanized neighborhoods except for the extremely urbanized neighborhoods (>2500 addresses/km
conclusionsThe novel OBCT index and its comprehensive environmental scores are potentially useful tools to quantify obesogenicity of neighborhoods.
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