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## Abstract ## Objective To examine associations between various measures of the food environment and BMI percentile among youth. ## Design Cross-sectional, observational. ## Setting Pitt County, eastern North Carolina. ## Subjects We extracted the electronic medical records for youth receiving well child check-ups from January 2007 to June 2008. We obtained addresses for food venues from two secondary sources and ground-truthing. A geographic information systems database was constructed by geocoding home addresses of 744 youth and food venues. We quantified participants’ accessibility to food venues by calculating ‘coverage’, number of food venues in buffers of 0·25, 0·5, 1 and 5 miles (0·4, 0·8, 1·6 and 8·0 km) and by calculating ‘proximity’ or distance to the closest food venue. We examined associations between BMI percentile and food venue accessibility using correlation and regression analyses. ## Results There were negative associations between BMI percentile and coverage of farmers’ markets/produce markets in 0·25 and 0·5 mile Euclidean and 0·25, 0·5 and 1 mile road network buffers. There were positive associations between BMI percentile and coverage of fast-food and pizza p

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Author

Stephanie B Jilcott; Scott Wade; Jared T McGuirt; Qiang Wu; Suzanne Lazorick; Justin B Moore

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803254855

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Business, Medical