Life Course Neighborhood Deprivation Effects on Body Mass Index: Quantifying the Importance of Selective Migration.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood effects research is plagued by the inability to circumvent selection effects -the process of people sorting into neighborhoods. Data from two British Birth Cohorts, 1958 (ages 16, 23, 33, 42, 55) and 1970 (ages 16, 24, 34, 42), and structural equation modelling, were used to investigate life course relationships between body mass index (BMI) and area deprivation (addresses at each age linked to the closest census 1971-2011 Townsend score [TOWN], re-calculated to reflect consistent 2011 lower super output area boundaries). Initially, models were examined for: (1) area deprivation only, (2) health selection only and (3) both. In the best-fitting model, all relationships were then tested for effect modification by residential mobility by inclusion of interaction terms. For both c

SUBMITTER: Murray ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8392830 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature