Exercise facilities and the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the city of Madrid.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

We aimed to study the association between the availability of exercise facilities and the likelihood of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the adult population of Madrid, Spain.

Methods

We analysed the electronic medical records of all 1,270,512 residents of Madrid aged 40-75 years in 2017. Exercise facility availability was defined as the count of exercise facilities in a 1000 m street network buffer around each residential building entrance. Poisson regression with standard errors clustered at census tract level was used to assess prevalence ratios of exercise facility availability tertiles and obesity and type 2 diabetes. We also examined stratified results by tertiles of area-level socioeconomic status (SES) and sex.

Results

People living in areas with

SUBMITTER: Cereijo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8660723 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature