Mixed Effects of Neighborhood Revitalization on Residents' Cardiometabolic Health.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the growing recognition of the importance of neighborhood conditions for cardiometabolic health, causal relationships have been difficult to establish owing to a reliance on cross-sectional designs and selection bias. This is the first natural experiment to examine the impact of neighborhood revitalization on cardiometabolic outcomes in residents from 2 predominantly African American neighborhoods, one of which has experienced significant revitalization (intervention), whereas the other has not (comparison).

Methods

The sample included 532 adults (95% African American, 80% female, mean age=58.9 years) from 2 sociodemographically similar, low-income neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, PA, with preintervention and postintervention measures (2016 and 2018) of BMI,

SUBMITTER: Troxel WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8541899 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature