Neighborhood Factors During Adolescence: Modest Effects On Cardiovascular Risk, Small Impact On Obesity And Depression.

ABSTRACT: Researchers increasingly recognize the importance of neighborhoods as a potential cause of noncommunicable disease, although the long-term impacts of early neighborhood exposures are not well understood. We used data from the prospective, nationally representative National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to calculate correlations in health outcomes during adulthood among individuals who attended the same school in adolescence. These upper-bound estimates suggest that the amount of variation attributable to early neighborhoods is small in the case of adult obesity and depressive symptoms and small or modest in the case of cardiovascular risk in early adulthood. Taken together, our results suggest that the benefits of neighborhood-based interventions during adolescence in al

SUBMITTER: Fletcher JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6714560 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature