Interrelationships between walkability, air pollution, greenness, and body mass index

Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 780-788

  James, Peter ^a,b   Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi Anna ^c   Hart, Jaime E ^a,b   Banay, Rachel F ^a   Kloog, Itai ^d   Laden, Francine ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GREENNESS; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LAND USE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEIGHBORHOOD; OBESITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTERED NURSE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; WALKABILITY; WALKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OBESITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WALKING;

EID: 85032865672     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000724     Document Type: Article

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