Spatial pattern of body mass index among adults in the diabetes study of Northern California (DISTANCE).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The role that environmental factors, such as neighborhood socioeconomics, food, and physical environment, play in the risk of obesity and chronic diseases is not well quantified. Understanding how spatial distribution of disease risk factors overlap with that of environmental (contextual) characteristics may inform health interventions and policies aimed at reducing the environment risk factors. We evaluated the extent to which spatial clustering of extreme body mass index (BMI) values among a large sample of adults with diabetes was explained by individual characteristics and contextual factors.

Methods

We quantified spatial clustering of BMI among 15,854 adults with diabetes from the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) cohort using the Global and Lo

SUBMITTER: Laraia BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4320620 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature