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Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children
Neighborhoods can provide opportunities for children to maintain a healthy weight or encourage unhealthy weight gain. Which neighborhood characteristics matter most remains poorly understood. We investigated links between neighborhood characteristics and weight change over the summer in children fro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29857473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061124 |
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author | Miles, Rebecca Wang, Yuxia Johnson, Suzanne Bennett |
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description | Neighborhoods can provide opportunities for children to maintain a healthy weight or encourage unhealthy weight gain. Which neighborhood characteristics matter most remains poorly understood. We investigated links between neighborhood characteristics and weight change over the summer in children from 12 elementary schools with a high proportion of children from low-income families, in a mid-sized city in the US South. Mixed models and objective measures of height and weight were used. Study participants were 2770 children (average age 8.3, range 5.6–12.6 years). Older and female children and those who were already overweight were more likely to gain weight over the summer compared to younger, male, and normal weight children. Overweight children who lived near 2 or more small grocery stores gained less weight than overweight children who lived near 0 (weight change, p = 0.0468; body mass index (BMI) change, p = 0.0209) or 1 store (weight change, p = 0.0136; BMI change, p = 0.0033). Normal weight children living in neighborhoods with more large multifamily buildings gained more weight over the summer, although this association only approached significance. Additional efforts to understand which neighborhood factors have greater significance for overweight compared to normal weight children are warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-60253522018-07-16 Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children Miles, Rebecca Wang, Yuxia Johnson, Suzanne Bennett Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Neighborhoods can provide opportunities for children to maintain a healthy weight or encourage unhealthy weight gain. Which neighborhood characteristics matter most remains poorly understood. We investigated links between neighborhood characteristics and weight change over the summer in children from 12 elementary schools with a high proportion of children from low-income families, in a mid-sized city in the US South. Mixed models and objective measures of height and weight were used. Study participants were 2770 children (average age 8.3, range 5.6–12.6 years). Older and female children and those who were already overweight were more likely to gain weight over the summer compared to younger, male, and normal weight children. Overweight children who lived near 2 or more small grocery stores gained less weight than overweight children who lived near 0 (weight change, p = 0.0468; body mass index (BMI) change, p = 0.0209) or 1 store (weight change, p = 0.0136; BMI change, p = 0.0033). Normal weight children living in neighborhoods with more large multifamily buildings gained more weight over the summer, although this association only approached significance. Additional efforts to understand which neighborhood factors have greater significance for overweight compared to normal weight children are warranted. MDPI 2018-05-31 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6025352/ /pubmed/29857473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061124 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Miles, Rebecca Wang, Yuxia Johnson, Suzanne Bennett Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children |
title | Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children |
title_full | Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children |
title_fullStr | Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children |
title_short | Neighborhood Built and Social Environments and Change in Weight Status over the Summer in Low-Income Elementary School Children |
title_sort | neighborhood built and social environments and change in weight status over the summer in low-income elementary school children |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29857473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061124 |
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