The Women's Health Initiative: The food environment, neighborhood socioeconomic status, BMI, and blood pressure.

ABSTRACT: Using data (n = 60,775 women) from the Women's Health Initiative Clinical Trial (WHI CT)-a national study of postmenopausal women aged 50-79 years-we analyzed cross-sectional associations between the availability of different types of food outlets in the 1.5 miles surrounding a woman's residence, census tract neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES), BMI, and blood pressure (BP). We simultaneously modeled NSES and food outlets using linear and logistic regression models, adjusting for multiple sociodemographic factors, population density and random effects at the tract and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level. We found significant associations between NSES, availability of food outlets and individual-level measurements of BMI and BP. As grocery store/supermarket availability increased

SUBMITTER: Dubowitz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4018819 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature