Neighborhood Resources for Physical Activity and Healthy Foods and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Author(s) -
Amy H. Auchincloss
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.302
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , demography , hazard ratio , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , body mass index , population , confidence interval , type 2 diabetes mellitus , percentile , gerontology , environmental health , endocrinology , statistics , physics , mathematics , sociology , optics
Despite increasing interest in the extent to which features of residential environments contribute to incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, no multisite prospective studies have investigated this question. We hypothesized that neighborhood resources supporting physical activity and healthy diets are associated with a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes.
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