Neighborhood Food Environments and Body Mass Index. The Importance of In-Store Contents

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 214-219

  Rose, Donald ^a   Hutchinson, Paul L ^a   Bodor, J Nicholas ^a   Swalm, Chris M ^a   Farley, Thomas A ^a   Cohen, Deborah A ^b   Rice, Janet C ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149145719     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2009.04.024     Document Type: Article

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