Neighborhood physical food environment and cardiovascular risk factors in India: Cross-sectional evidence from APCAPS.

ABSTRACT: There has been increasing interest in associations between neighborhood food environments and cardiovascular risk factors. However, results from high-income countries remain inconsistent, and there has been limited research from low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the third wave follow-up of the Andhra Pradesh children and parents study (APCAPS) (n = 5764, median age 28.8 years) in south India. We examined associations between the neighborhood availability (vendor density per km² within 400 m and 1600 m buffers of households) and accessibility (distance from the household to the nearest vendor) of fruit/vegetable and highly processed/take-away food vendors with 11 cardiovascular risk factors, including adiposity measures, glucose-insulin,

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6857431 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature