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Fast Food and Neighborhood Stroke Risk by Lewis B. Morgenstern; James D. Escobar; Brisa N. Sánchez; Rebecca Hughes; Belinda G. Zuniga; Nelda Garcia; Lynda D. Lisabeth is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

## Abstract ## Objective To investigate the association between the number of fast food restaurants and ischemic stroke in neighborhoods. ## Methods This work was a prespecified part of the Brain Attack in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project. Ischemic stroke cases were prospectively ascertained in Nueces County, Texas. Home addresses were geocoded and used to establish the census tract for each stroke case. Census tracts were used as proxies for neighborhoods (n = 64). Using a standard definition, fast food restaurants were identified from a commercial list. Poisson regression was used to study the association between the number of fast food restaurants in the neighborhood, using a 1‐mile buffer around each census tract, and the risk of stroke in the neighborhood. Models were adjusted for demographics and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). ## Results There were 1,247 completed ischemic strokes from January 2000 through June 2003 and 262 fast food restaurants. The median number of fast food restaurants per census tract including buffer was 22 (interquartile range, 12–33). Adjusting for neighborhood demographics and SES, the association of fast food restaurants with stroke was signi

Author

Lewis B. Morgenstern; James D. Escobar; Brisa N. Sánchez; Rebecca Hughes; Belinda G. Zuniga; Nelda Garcia; Lynda D. Lisabeth

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0364-5134)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)