Neighborhood Walkability and Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a paucity of prospective cohort studies evaluating neighborhood walkability in relation to the risk of death.

Methods

We geocoded baseline residential addresses of 13,832 women in the New York University Women's Health Study (NYUWHS) and estimated the Built Environment and Health Neighborhood Walkability Index (BEH-NWI) for each participant circa 1990. The participants were recruited from 1985 to 1991 in New York City and followed for an average of 27 years. We conducted survival analyses using Cox proportional hazards models to assess the association between neighborhood walkability and risk of death from any cause, obesity-related diseases, cardiometabolic diseases, and obesity-related cancers.

Results

Residing in a neighborhood with a higher nei

SUBMITTER: India-Aldana S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8969891 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature