People living in hilly residential areas in metropolitan Perth have less diabetes: Spurious association or important environmental determinant?

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Villanueva, Karen ^a,c   Knuiman, Matthew ^a   Koohsari, Mohammad Javad ^b,c   Hickey, Sharyn ^a   Foster, Sarah ^a   Badland, Hannah ^c   Nathan, Andrea ^d   Bull, Fiona ^a   Giles Corti, Billie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adults; Built environment; Diabetes; Hilly; Neighbourhood; Slope; Terrain; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84890449259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-12-59     Document Type: Article

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