Improvement in food environments may help prevent childhood obesity: Evidence from a 9-year cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effects of food environments (FEs) on childhood obesity are mixed.

Objectives

To examine the association of residential FEs with childhood obesity and variation of the association across gender and urbanicity.

Methods

We used the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort data, with 9440 kindergarteners followed up from 1998 to 2007. The Dun and Bradstreet commercial datasets in 1998 and 2007 were used to construct 12 FE measures of children, ie, changes in the food outlet mix and density of supermarkets, convenience stores, full-service restaurants, fast-food restaurants, retail bakery, dairy-product stores, health/dietetic food stores, confectionery stores, fruit/vegetable markets, meat/fish markets, and beverage stores. Two-level mixed-eff

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771845 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature