Association of the built environment and neighborhood resources with obesity-related health behaviors in older veterans with hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association of the built environment and neighborhood resources with exercise, diet, and body mass index (BMI).

Method

Person-level data were collected from 533 veterans with uncontrolled hypertension. Neighborhood measures were: (a) census-tract level walkability; and (b) healthy food proximity (HFP). Robust or logistic regression (adjusting for age, race, education, comorbidity, and clustered by provider) was used to evaluate associations between neighborhood and exercise duration (hours/week), exercise adherence (% adherent), saturated fat index (0-10), Healthy Eating Index (HEI; 0-100), HEI adherence (≥ 74 score), stage of change (SOC) for exercise and diet (% in action/maintenance), BMI (kg/m²), and obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²).

Results

The

SUBMITTER: Albanese NNY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10110294 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature