Neighborhood Food Environment and Birth Weight Outcomes in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Infants born with unhealthy birth weight are at greater risk for long-term health complications, but little is known about how neighborhood characteristics (eg, walkability, food environment) may affect birth weight outcomes.

Objective

To assess whether neighborhood-level characteristics (poverty rate, food environment, and walkability) are associated with risk of unhealthy birth weight outcomes and to evaluate whether gestational weight gain mediated these associations.

Design, setting, and participants

The population-based cross-sectional study included births in the 2015 vital statistics records from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Only singleton births and observations with complete birth weight and covariate data were include

SUBMITTER: Kinsey EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261997 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature