Moving to a highly walkable neighborhood and incidence of hypertension: A propensity-score matched cohort study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 754-760

  Chiu, Maria ^a   Rezai, Mohammad Reza ^a   Maclagan, Laura C ^a   Austin, Peter C ^a   Shah, Baiju R ^a,b,c   Redelmeier, Donald A ^a,d   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEIGHBORHOOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WALKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; ONTARIO; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ONTARIO; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WALKING;

EID: 84971506960     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510425     Document Type: Article

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