Association between casino opening or expansion and risk of childhood overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Economic resources have been inversely associated with risk of childhood overweight/obesity. Few studies have evaluated whether this association is a direct effect of economic resources or is attributable to unmeasured confounding or reverse causation. American Indian-owned casinos have resulted in increased economic resources for some tribes and provide an opportunity to test whether these resources are associated with overweight/obesity.

Objective

To assess whether openings or expansions of American Indian-owned casinos were associated with childhood overweight/obesity risk.

Design, setting, and participants

We used repeated cross-sectional anthropometric measurements from fitness testing of American Indian children (aged 7-18 years) from 117 school distr

SUBMITTER: Jones-Smith JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4170916 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature