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Urban sprawl and risk for being overweight or obese.

American journal of public health ·Vol. 94 ·No. 9 ·2004-09-00 ·Pages 1574-9

Lopez R

Abstract

I examined the association between urban sprawl and the risk for being overweight or obese among US adults. A measure of urban sprawl in metropolitan areas was derived from the 2000 US Census; individual-level data were obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. I used multilevel analysis to assess the association between urban sprawl and obesity. After I controlled for gender, age, race/ethnicity, income, and education, for each 1-point rise in the urban sprawl index (0-100 scale), the risk for being overweight increased by 0.2% and the risk for being obese increased by 0.5%. The current obesity epidemic has many causes, but there is an association between urban sprawl and obesity.

MeSH Terms
Adult Aged Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System City Planning Environment Design Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data Female Health Behavior Humans Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Obesity/epidemiology,etiology Risk Factors Sex Distribution United States/epidemiology Urban Health/statistics & numerical data Urban Population/statistics & numerical data
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Lopez Russ
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA. [email protected]
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Article Info
Journal
American journal of public health
Abbr.
Am J Public Health
ISSN
0090-0036
DOI
10.2105/ajph.94.9.1574
Email
[email protected]
Published
2004-09-00
Pages
1574-9
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
1254074
PMCID
PMC1448496
Subset
IM
Grants
NIEHS NIH HHS · F31 ES011219 · United States
DRS NIH HHS · 5 F31 RS11219-02 · United States
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