Unwalkable neighborhoods, poverty, and the risk of diabetes among recent immigrants to Canada compared with long-term residents

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 302-308

  Booth, Gillian L ^a,b,c   Creatore, Maria I ^a,b   Moineddin, Rahim ^b,c   Gozdyra, Peter ^a,b   Weyman, Jonathan T ^a   Matheson, Flora I ^a,b,d   Glazier, Richard H ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

ADULT; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WALKING;

EID: 84873801769     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc12-0777     Document Type: Article

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