Impact of land use and food environment on risk of type 2 diabetes: A national study of veterans, 2008-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large-scale longitudinal studies evaluating influences of the built environment on risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) are scarce, and findings have been inconsistent.

Objective

To evaluate whether land use environment (LUE), a proxy of neighborhood walkability, is associated with T2D risk across different US community types, and to assess whether the association is modified by food environment.

Methods

The Veteran's Administration Diabetes Risk (VADR) study is a retrospective cohort of diabetes-free US veteran patients enrolled in VA primary care facilities nationwide from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2016, and followed longitudinally through December 31, 2018. A total of 4,096,629 patients had baseline addresses available in electronic health records that

SUBMITTER: India-Aldana S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10424702 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature