Integrating human activity into food environments can better predict cardiometabolic diseases in the United States.

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases in the United States is presumably linked to an obesogenic retail food environment that promotes unhealthy dietary habits. Past studies, however, have reported inconsistent findings about the relationship between the two. One underexplored area is how humans interact with food environments and how to integrate human activity into scalable measures. In this paper, we develop the retail food activity index (RFAI) at the census tract level by utilizing Global Positioning System tracking data covering over 94 million aggregated visit records to approximately 359,000 food retailers across the United States over two years. Here we show that the RFAI has significant associations with the prevalence of multiple cardiometabolic diseases. Our study indicate

SUBMITTER: Xu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10643374 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature