ArticlePreventive medicine reports2017
Associations between green area in school neighbourhoods and overweight and obesity among Norwegian adolescents.
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- The Influence of Green Space on Obesity in China: A Systematic Review.Obesity facts · 2022Pooled it
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- The impacts of various green space types on the adiposity of undergraduate students: a nationwide quasi-experimental study.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Association between exposure to greenspace and ECG abnormalities in China: a nationwide longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The influence path of community green exposure index on activity behavior under multi-dimensional spatial perception.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Association between Greenness and Urbanization Level with Weight Status among Adolescents: New Evidence from the HBSC 2018 Italian Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Comparing different data sources by examining the associations between surrounding greenspace and children's weight status.International journal of health geographics · 2021Article
- A cross-sectional study of the impact of school neighbourhood on children obesity and body composition.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Green space access in the neighbourhood and childhood obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- Greenspace, physical activity, and BMI in children from two cities in northern Mexico.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Associations between types of greenery along neighborhood roads and weight status in different climates.Urban forestry & urban greening · 2019Article
- Demographic Inequities in Health Outcomes and Air Pollution Exposure in the Atlanta Area and its Relationship to Urban Infrastructure.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2019Article
- The Association between Green Space and the Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity among Primary School Children.The international journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
- Urban green space and obesity in older adults: Evidence from Ireland.SSM - population health · 2018Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between green areas and adolescents' body mass index (BMI). This is based on the notion that nature environment is known to have beneficial effects on human health, and that some of the explanation for this is that green areas are especially motivating or suitable as arenas for physical activity. We included 10,527 participants from the Norwegian Youth Study, which was conducted between 2001 and 2004. The participants reported body weight, height, and important potential confounding variables about lifestyle, family situation, and neighbourhood characteristics. Green area was assessed from land cover maps and we calculated the percentage of green areas within 1 km and 5 km buffers around the adolescents' schools. We found that the percentage of overweight and obese adolescents increased significantly when the percentage of green areas in the participants' surrounding increased (
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