ArticleInternational public health journal2022
Comparison of neighborhood deprivation index and food desert status as environmental predictors of early childhood obesity.
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- Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Liver Disease Associated With Poor Food Access and Geographic hot Spots Among Liver Transplant Candidates.Transplantation · 2026Article
- Comparing Neighborhood Indices of Socioeconomic Status, Segregation, and Healthcare Access for Predicting Late-Stage Breast Cancer.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Nearly 14% of American children aged 2-5 have obesity, with higher rates in children from lower-income and Black families. While evidence connects neighborhood socioeconomic environment (SEE) and obesity in adults and adolescents, little is known of this relationship in young children. We compared measures of SEE and family-level socio-demographic factors as predictors of obesity at age two.
methodsFamily-level data from the PREVAIL Cohort, a CDC-funded birth cohort in Cincinnati, Ohio, were collected prenatally from the mothers. Residential addresses were geocoded and assigned validated measures of census tract-level SEE, including USDA food desert indicators and the Deprivation Index. Family-level and ecological SEE were compared as predictors of obesity (BMI
resultsResiding outside of Deprivation Index High SEE neighborhoods was significantly associated with higher proportion (20.0%
conclusionIn the PREVAIL Cohort, only category of Deprivation Index was a significant predictor of obesity in two-year-old children. Future studies are needed to evaluate the Deprivation Index as a generalizable tool to identify neighborhoods at higher risk for obesity.
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