Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite a proposed connection between neighborhood environment and obesity, few longitudinal studies have examined the relationship between change in neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation, as defined by moving between neighborhoods, and change in body weight. The purpose of this study is to examine the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods and weight gain as a cardiovascular risk factor.

Methods

Weight (kilograms) was measured in the Dallas Heart Study (DHS), a multiethnic cohort aged 18-65 years, at baseline (2000-2002) and 7-year follow-up (2007-2009, N=1,835). Data were analyzed in 2013-2014. Geocoded addresses were linked to Dallas County, TX, census block groups. A block group-level neighborhood deprivati

SUBMITTER: Powell-Wiley TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4476924 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature