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An observational study identifying obese subgroups among older adults at increased risk of mobility disability: do perceptions of the neighborhood environment matter?

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, December 2015
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Title
An observational study identifying obese subgroups among older adults at increased risk of mobility disability: do perceptions of the neighborhood environment matter?
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12966-015-0322-1
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Abby C. King, Deborah Salvo, Jorge A. Banda, David K. Ahn, Thomas M. Gill, Michael Miller, Anne B. Newman, Roger A. Fielding, Carlos Siordia, Spencer Moore, Sara Folta, Bonnie Spring, Todd Manini, Marco Pahor, for the LIFE Study Investigators

Abstract

Obesity is an increasingly prevalent condition among older adults, yet relatively little is known about how built environment variables may be associated with obesity in older age groups. This is particularly the case for more vulnerable older adults already showing functional limitations associated with subsequent disability. The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) trial dataset (n = 1600) was used to explore the associations between perceived built environment variables and baseline obesity levels. Age-stratified recursive partitioning methods were applied to identify distinct subgroups with varying obesity prevalence. Among participants aged 70-78 years, four distinct subgroups, defined by combinations of perceived environment and race-ethnicity variables, were identified. The subgroups with the lowest obesity prevalence (45.5-59.4 %) consisted of participants who reported living in neighborhoods with higher residential density. Among participants aged 79-89 years, the subgroup (of three distinct subgroups identified) with the lowest obesity prevalence (19.4 %) consisted of non-African American/Black participants who reported living in neighborhoods with friends or acquaintances similar in demographic characteristics to themselves. Overall support for the partitioned subgroupings was obtained using mixed model regression analysis. The results suggest that, in combination with race/ethnicity, features of the perceived neighborhood built and social environments differentiated distinct groups of vulnerable older adults from different age strata that differed in obesity prevalence. Pending further verification, the results may help to inform subsequent targeting of such subgroups for further investigation. Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier =  NCT01072500.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Unknown 135 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 15%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Other 28 21%
Unknown 27 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 22 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 11%
Psychology 8 6%
Unspecified 8 6%
Other 29 21%
Unknown 37 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 September 2017.
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#6,743,768
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Outputs from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#1,507
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#106,122
of 388,246 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#57
of 62 outputs
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