Neighbourhoods’ social, built, and natural environment characteristics and body mass index in Latin American cities
Neighbourhood education is associated with BMI beyond individual and city characteristics, although the associations are heterogenous across countries and by gender. Associations with built and natural features were less clear. Our results highlight the relevance of context-specific analysis for planning interventions that are aimed to reduce BMI and its unequal distribution in Latin American cities.
Authors
- Carolina Pérez‐Ferrer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4732-3555)
- Natalia Tumas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-6624)
- Brisa Ney Sánchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4824-7200)
- Mariana Lazo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-6734)
- Santiago Rodríguez López (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-3751)
- Olga Lucia Sarmiento (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9190-3568)
- Usama Bilal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9868-7773)
- Ana V. Diez Roux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-7050)
- Sandra Flores‐Alvarado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0490-0578)
- Kari Moore
- Mónica Mazariegos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2250-3683)
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Universidad de Los Andes (CO)
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (AR)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
- Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (GT)
- Universidad de Los Andes (BO)
- UPF Barcelona School of Management (ES)
- University of Chile (CL)
- Drexel University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-04-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf047
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Wellcome Trust