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 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Drs. Andrea Richardson and Young Kim for their comments on the manuscript. The authors have no financial or other conflicts of interest to disclose. Dr. Janne Boone-Heinonen had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of data analysis. This study was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01HL104580 and the Office of Research in Women's Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Oregon BIRCWH Award Number K12HD043488.
Funding Information:
The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA) is supported by contracts HHSN268201300025C, HHSN268201300026C, HHSN268201300027C, HHSN268201300028C, HHSN268201300029C, and HHSN268200900041C from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and an intra-agency agreement between NIA and NHLBI (AG0005). This manuscript has been reviewed by CARDIA for scientific content. For general support, the authors are grateful to the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Grant R24HD050924 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD]), the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), University of North Carolina (Grant P30DK56350 from the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [NIDDK]), and the Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS), University of North Carolina (Grant P30ES010126 from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences [NIEHS]). NIH had no role in the design or conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
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 -