Geographic scale matters in detecting the relationship between neighbourhood food environments and obesity risk: An analysis of driver license records in Salt Lake County, Utah

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Fan, Jessie X ^a   Hanson, Heidi A ^b   Zick, Cathleen D ^a   Brown, Barbara B ^a   Kowaleski Jones, Lori ^a   Smith, Ken R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRIVER LICENCE; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEIGHBORHOOD; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SHOPPING; UNITED STATES; BODY MASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAST FOOD; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESTAURANTS; UTAH;

EID: 84908548131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005458     Document Type: Article

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