The association between living environmental factors and adolescents' body weight: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effect of the living environment on public health has received increasingly scholarly attention. This study aims to explore the relationship between adolescents' body weight and their living environmental factors.

Methods

This cross-sectional study comprised 1362 middle-school students from Nanjing and 826 from Changzhou in China. We further collected information on living environmental factors based on their home address and ran multivariate logistic regressions to explore potential correlations after considering a range of potential confounding factors.

Results

Approximately 25% (n = 303) of students from Nanjing and 26% (n = 205) of students from Changzhou were excessive body weight. In Nanjing, students' BMI (Body Mass Index) showed a strong negativ

SUBMITTER: Huang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8667439 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature