TY - JOUR
T1 - Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories
T2 - The CARDIA study
AU - Boone-Heinonen, Janne
AU - Howard, Annie Green
AU - Meyer, Katie
AU - Lewis, Cora E.
AU - Kiefe, Catarina I.
AU - Laroche, Helena H.
AU - Gunderson, Erica P.
AU - Gordon-Larsen, Penny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - Marriage and parenthood are associated with weight gain and residential mobility. Little is known about how obesity-relevant environmental contexts differ according to family structure. We estimated trajectories of neighborhood poverty, population density, and density of fast food restaurants, supermarkets, and commercial and public physical activity facilities for adults from a biracial cohort (CARDIA, n=4,174, aged 25-50) over 13 years (1992-93 through 2005-06) using latent growth curve analysis. We estimated associations of marriage, parenthood, and race with the observed neighborhood trajectories. Married participants tended to live in neighborhoods with lower poverty, population density, and availability of all types of food and physical activity amenities. Parenthood was similarly but less consistently related to neighborhood characteristics. Marriage and parenthood were more strongly related to neighborhood trajectories in whites (versus blacks), who, in prior studies, exhibit weaker associations between neighborhood characteristics and health. Greater understanding of how interactive family and neighborhood environments contribute to healthy living is needed.
AB - Marriage and parenthood are associated with weight gain and residential mobility. Little is known about how obesity-relevant environmental contexts differ according to family structure. We estimated trajectories of neighborhood poverty, population density, and density of fast food restaurants, supermarkets, and commercial and public physical activity facilities for adults from a biracial cohort (CARDIA, n=4,174, aged 25-50) over 13 years (1992-93 through 2005-06) using latent growth curve analysis. We estimated associations of marriage, parenthood, and race with the observed neighborhood trajectories. Married participants tended to live in neighborhoods with lower poverty, population density, and availability of all types of food and physical activity amenities. Parenthood was similarly but less consistently related to neighborhood characteristics. Marriage and parenthood were more strongly related to neighborhood trajectories in whites (versus blacks), who, in prior studies, exhibit weaker associations between neighborhood characteristics and health. Greater understanding of how interactive family and neighborhood environments contribute to healthy living is needed.
KW - Built environment
KW - Geographic information systems
KW - Life course
KW - Longitudinal study
KW - Obesity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.005
DO - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 26093081
AN - SCOPUS:84934994643
SN - 1353-8292
VL - 34
SP - 229
EP - 240
JO - Health and Place
JF - Health and Place
ER -