Titre :
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Body mass index in urban Canada : Neighborhood and metropolitan area effects. (2007)
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Auteurs :
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Nancy-A ROSS ;
Jean-Marie Berthelot ;
Daniel CROUSE ;
Saeeda KHAN ;
Stephane Tremblay ;
Mark Tremblay ;
Statistics Canada. Ottawa. ON. CAN
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 97, n° 3, 2007)
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Pagination :
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500-508
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Canada
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Amérique
;
Ville
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Homme
;
Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS lR0xGIl9. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. We investigated the influence of neighborhood and metropolitan area characteristics on body mass index (BMI) in urban Canada in 2001. Methods. We conducted a multilevel analysis with data collected from a cross-sectional survey of men and women nested in neighborhoods and metropolitan areas in urban Canada during 2001. Results. After we controlled for individual sociodemographic characteristics and behaviors, the average BMIs of residents of neighborhoods in which a large proportion of individuals had less than a high school education were higher than those BMIs of residents in neighborhoods with small proportions of such individuals (P<. living in a neighborhood with high proportion of recent immigrants was associated lower bmi for men but not women. dwelling density either gender. metropolitan sprawl higher the effect significant women conclusions. is strongly patterned by an individual social position urban canada. condition has incremental influence on average its residents. however influenced density. canadian which supports evidence this same association among american men. individuals and their environments collectively>
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