Individual and environmental factors associated for overweight in urban population of Brazil

Mendes, Larissa Loures; Nogueira, Helena; Padez, Cristina; Ferrão, Maria; Velásquez-Meléndez, Gustavo

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-988

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“…Consistent with prior literature, we additionally found that exposure to homicide alone was not associated with obesity status and was inconsistently associated with BP status. The presence of at least 1 homicide in a community was associated with elevated BP; however, the relative effect was smaller compared with analyses examining overall violent crime rates.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…In the most similar study published to date, Miranda and colleagues examined 1785 school‐aged children and found a stronger relationship between violent crime rates and measured BMI, compared with property crime rates . However, similar studies using objective measures in adult populations have typically examined homicide rates only, resulting in null findings . Our study distinguishes between 3 types of crime (violent crime, nonviolent property crime, and homicide), revealing notable differences in their associations with obesity and elevated BP.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…38 However, similar studies using objective measures in adult populations have typically examined homicide rates only, resulting in null findings. 11,39,40 Our study distinguishes between 3 types of crime (violent crime, nonviolent property crime, and homicide), revealing notable differences in their associations with obesity and elevated BP. Findings in our study were also more pronounced among women, supporting prior evidence that women who feel unsafe may be less likely to engage in physical activity relative to men.…”

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confidence: 86%

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Police‐Recorded Crime and Disparities in Obesity and Blood Pressure Status in Chicago

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Wroblewski

Boyd

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BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to examine associations between several types of police‐recorded crime (violent, nonviolent, and homicide) and cardiometabolic health (obesity and elevated blood pressure [BP]), and to determine if associations were modified by age and sex.Methods and ResultsWe analyzed cross‐sectional data (N=14 799 patients) from 3 primary care clinics at an academic medical center in Chicago, IL. Patient‐level health data were obtained from the electronic health record (June 1, 2014–May 31, 2015), including body mass index and BP, and linked to the City of Chicago Police Data Portal. Geocoded crime counts were aggregated to census tract and calculated as the annual crime rate per 1000 population. Generalized linear mixed models were used to assess obesity and BP status as a function of crime rate quartile, controlling for patient, clinic, and neighborhood characteristics. Median violent crime rates in each quartile ranged from 15 to 84 per 1000 population. Median age was 56 years (interquartile range, 38–72 years); 42% of patients were obese and 33% had elevated BP. Compared with patients living in the lowest quartile, patients living in the highest quartile for violent crime had 53% higher adjusted odds of obesity (95% confidence interval, 1.15–2.03) and 25% higher adjusted odds of elevated BP (95% confidence interval, 1.01–1.56). In subanalyses examining homicide, a relatively rare event, exposure was not associated with obesity and was inconsistently associated with elevated BP.ConclusionsIn a densely populated, high‐poverty region in Chicago, recurrent exposure to high rates of violent crime was consistently associated with obesity and elevated BP, but rare exposure to homicide was not.

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Police‐Recorded Crime and Disparities in Obesity and Blood Pressure Status in Chicago

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“…This finding is similar to the findings of Mendes et al (2013) 47 among an urban population in Belo Horizonte in Brazil. In their study, Mendes et al found that even though the presence of parks/ public squares/places for practicing physical activity was associated with lower prevalence ratios for overweight/obesity, the relationship was not statistically significant.…”

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The Local Food Environment and Body Mass Index among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana

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Thompson

et al. 2016

J Urban Health

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Obesity in the sub-Saharan Africa region has been portrayed as a problem of affluence, partly because obesity has been found to be more common in urban areas and among the rich. Recent findings, however, reveal rising prevalence among the poor particularly the urban poor. A growing body of literature mostly in Western countries shows that obesity among the poor is partly the result of an obesogenic-built environment. Such studies are lacking in the African context. This study examines the characteristics of the local food environment in an urban poor setting in Accra, Ghana and further investigates the associated risk of obesity for residents. Data on the local food environment was collected using geographic positioning system (GPS) technology. The body mass indices (BMI) of females (15-49 years) and males (15-59 years) were calculated from measured weight and height. Data on the socio-demographic characteristics and lifestyle behaviors of respondents was also collected through a household survey. Spatial analysis tools were used to examine the characteristics of the local food environment while the influence of the food environment on BMI was examined using a twolevel multilevel model. The measures of the food environment constituted the level 2 factors while individual socio-demographic characteristics and lifestyle behaviors constituted the level 1 factors. The local food environment in the study communities is suggestive of an obesogenic food environment characterized by an abundance of out-of-home cooked foods, convenience stores, and limited fruits and vegetables options. The results of the multilevel analysis reveal a 0.2 kg/m 2 increase in BMI for every additional convenience store and a 0.1 kg/m 2 reduction in BMI for every out-of-home cooked food place available in the study area after controlling for individual socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle behaviors, and community characteristics. The findings of this study indicate that the local food environment in urban poor Accra is associated with increased risk of obesity through providing access to convenience stores. In order to reduce the risk of obesity in these urban poor communities, there is the need to regulate the availability of and access to convenience stores while also encouraging healthier offerings in convenience stores.

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“…Obesity or the accumulation of excess body adiposity is considered to be a complex disease of the diverse etiology (Binks 2016) and is a result of a complex combination of an "obesogenic environment" (Mendes et al 2013). This complex envi-ronment consists of genetic (Sitek et al 2014;Rosset et al 2016), socio-economic (Chung et al 2016;Kowalkowska et al 2016), nutritional (Gurnani et al 2015;Binks 2016) and psychological (Czegledi 2016; Kelley et al 2016) factors.…”

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Neck circumference as a screening measure of overweight/obesity among Indian adults

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Sen

Bose

et al. 2016

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Neck circumference (NC) is an anthropometric measurement of differentiating body fat distributions and a marker of upper subcutaneous adiposity. The present study highlights the association and importance of NC as a suitable proxy screening measure of overweight/obesity as compared to the conventional anthropometric variables used among Indian adults. The present community based cross-sectional study was undertaken among 1169 Karbi adults (males: 625; females: 544) residing in Karbi Anglong district of Assam, Northeast India, who were selected through a multistage stratified random sampling method. Height, weight, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC) and NC were recorded using standard procedures. The body mass index (BMI) was calculated and prevalence of overweight/obesity was assessed using standard cut-offs. The prevalence of obesity using BMI (≥25.00 kg m -2 ) was 15.52% and 15.26% among males and females, respectively (p≥0.05).The prevalence of obesity using NC was observed to be significantly higher among males (48.80%) than females (19.12%) (p<0.01). The binary logistic regression analysis showed that NC predicted obesity over the conventional anthropometric variables with reasonable accuracy (p<0.01). The ROC-AUC analysis showed a relatively greater significant association between BMI, WC and HC and NC for obesity (p<0.01). Thus, NC appears to be a potentially simple, easyto-use screening measure for predicting obesity among adults. Further studies are required to validate its use for screening of obesity among other ethnic populations in India.

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Individual and environmental factors associated for overweight in urban population of Brazil

Cited by 35 publications

References 51 publications

Police‐Recorded Crime and Disparities in Obesity and Blood Pressure Status in Chicago

Police‐Recorded Crime and Disparities in Obesity and Blood Pressure Status in Chicago

The Local Food Environment and Body Mass Index among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana

Neck circumference as a screening measure of overweight/obesity among Indian adults

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