Disparities in trajectories of changes in the unhealthy food environment in New York City: A latent class growth analysis, 1990-2010.

ABSTRACT: Disparities in availability of food retailers in the residential environment may help explain racial/ethnic and socio-economic differences in obesity risk. Research is needed that describes whether food environment dynamics may contribute to equalizing conditions across neighborhoods or to amplifying existing inequalities over time. This study improves the understanding of how the BMI-unhealthy food environment has evolved over time in New York City. We use longitudinal census tract-level data from the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) for New York City in the period 1990-2010 and implement latent class growth analysis (LCGA) to (1) examine trajectories of change in the number of unhealthy food outlets (characterized as selling calorie-dense foods such as pizza and pastries) at the

SUBMITTER: Berger N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6689383 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature