ArticleJournal of obesity2023
Impact of Food Environments on Obesity Rates: A State-Level Analysis.
Article in Journal of obesity, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mapping the Relationship between Neighborhood-Level Factors and Nutrition Environments of Restaurants Offering Children's Menus.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- Identifying and assessing online food delivery swamps in major Chinese cities.International journal of health geographics · 2026Article
- Article
- Measurement tools to assess the obesogenic environment in neighborhood: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Supermarket Opening in an Urban, Low-Income Community Was Not Found to Be Associated With Improvements in Dietary Outcomes for Most Residents in the First Year.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2025Article
- Neighborhood Disadvantage, Built Environment, and Breast Cancer Outcomes: Disparities in Tumor Aggressiveness and Survival.Cancers · 2025Article
- Evaluating the benefits of the early use of GLP-1 receptor agonists.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- Outdoor environment and obesity: A review of current evidence.Metabolism open · 2024Review
- Association between geospatial disparities in food security with weight loss and nutritional outcomes of metabolic surgery.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Barriers to Care for Pediatric Patients with Obesity.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Limited access to healthy food in areas that are predominantly food deserts or food swamps may be associated with obesity. Other unhealthy behaviors may also be associated with obesity and poor food environments. Methods: We calculated Modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI) to assess food retailers. Using data collected from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, the NJ Department of Health (NJDOH), and the US Census Bureau, we conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the interaction of obesity with the food environment and assessed smoking, leisure-time physical activity (LPA), and poor sleep. Results: There were 17.9% food deserts and 9.3% food swamps in NJ. There was a statistically significant negative correlation between mRFEI and obesity rate (Pearson's Conclusion: Obesity tracks with food deserts and especially food swamps. It is also correlated with other unhealthy behaviors (smoking, LPA, and poor sleep).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.