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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH PROMOTION
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 255-264Publisher
AMER J HEALTH PROMOTION INC
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.071204127
Keywords
African Americans; Diet; Hispanic Americans; Residence Characteristics; Urban Population; Prevention Research; Purpose: modeling/relationship testing; Gepgraphic communities: Detroit Michigan
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- NIEHS NIH HHS [R01 ES014234-05, R01ES10936, R01 ES014234, R01 ES010936, R01 ES010936-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NINR NIH HHS [K01 NR010540-01, K01 NR010540] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose. To examine relationships between the neighborhood food environment and fruit mol vegetable intake in a multiethnic urban Population. Design. Analysis of cross-sectional survey and observational data. Setting. One hundred forty-six neighborhoods within three large geographic communities of Detroit, Michigan. Subjects. Probability sample of 919 African-American, Latino, and white adults. Measures. The dependent variable was mean daily fruit and vegetable servings, as measured by using a modified. Block 98 food frequency questionnaire. Independent variables included the neighborhood food environment: store availability (i.e., large grocery, specialty, convenience, liquor, small grocery), supermarket proximity (i.e., street-network distance to nearest chain grocer), and perceived and observed neighborhood fresh fruit and vegetable supply (i.e., availability, variety, quality, affordability). Analysis: Weighted, multilevel regression. Results. Presence of a large grocery store in the nieghborhood was associated with, on average, 0.69 more daily fruit and vegetable servings in the full sample. Relationships between the food environment and fruit and vegetable intake did not differ between whites and African-Americans. However, Latinos. compared with African-Americans, who had a large grocery store in the neighborhood consumed 2.20 more daily servings of ? fruits and vegetables. Presence of a convenience store in the neighborhood was associated with 1.84 fewer daily fruit and vegetable servings among Latinos than among African-Americans. Conclusion. The neighborhood food environment influences fruit and vegetable intake, and the size of thins relationship may vary for different racial/ethnic subpopulations. (Am J Health Promot 2009; 23[4]:255-264.)
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