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SUBMITTER: Sanchez BN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3372311 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sánchez Brisa N BN Sanchez-Vaznaugh Emma V EV Uscilka Ali A Baek Jonggyu J Zhang Lindy L
American journal of epidemiology 20120417 12
Epidemiologic studies have observed influences of the food environment near schools on children's overweight status but have not systematically assessed the associations by race, sex, and grade. The authors examined whether the associations between franchised fast food restaurant or convenience store density near schools and overweight varied by these factors using data for 926,018 children (31.3% white, 55.1% Hispanic, 5.7% black, and 8% Asian) in fifth, seventh, or ninth grade, nested in 6,362 ...[more]