Impact of Commercial Food Environments on Local Type 2 Diabetes Burden: Cross-Sectional and Ecological Multimodeling Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neighborhoods resulting from rapid urbanization processes are often saturated with eateries for local communities, potentially increasing exposure to unhealthy foods and creating diabetogenic residential habitats.

Objective

We examined the association between proximity of commercial food outlets to local neighborhood residences and type 2 diabetes (T2D) cases to explore how local T2D rates vary by location and provide policy-driven metrics to monitor food outlet density as a potential control for high local T2D rates.

Methods

This cross-sectional ecological study included 11,354 patients with active T2D aged ≥20 years geocoded using approximate neighborhood residence aggregated to area-level rates and counts by subdistricts (mukims) in Penang, northern Mala

SUBMITTER: Ganasegeran K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12455153 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature