Geography of Adolescent Obesity in the U.S., 2007-2011.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity remains a significant threat to the current and long-term health of U.S. adolescents. The authors developed county-level estimates of adolescent obesity for the contiguous U.S., and then explored the association between 23 conceptually derived area-based correlates of adolescent obesity and ecologic obesity prevalence.

Methods

Multilevel small area regression methods applied to the 2007 and 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health produced county-level obesity prevalence estimates for children aged 10-17 years. Exploratory multivariable Bayesian regression estimated the cross-sectional association between nutrition, activity, and macrosocial characteristics of counties and states, and county-level obesity prevalence. All analyses were conducted in

SUBMITTER: Kramer MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5118145 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature