The relationship between objectively measured attributes of the built environment and selected cardiovascular risk factors in a South African urban setting

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dc.contributor.authorMalambo, Pasmore
dc.contributor.authorDe Villiers, Anniza
dc.contributor.authorLambert, Estelle V.
dc.contributor.authorPuoane, Thandi
dc.contributor.authorKengne, Andre P.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T07:30:50Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T07:30:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Evidence concerning the relationship between objectively-measured attributes of the built environment with cardio-metabolic risk in populations from lower- and middle-income countries is lacking. In this paper, we describe the association between the objectively-measured built environment with body mass index, blood pressure and physical activity in adult South Africans. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 341 adults aged ≥35 years drawn from the Cape Town arm of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) cohort study. All Cape Town PURE participants were invited to take part in the study. Actigraph GT3X accelerometer and Geographic Information Systems were used to measure physical activity and built environment attributes (community center, shopping center and taxi rank). RESULTS: In age and sex adjusted models (reference 500 m), access to community centers (1000 m) was positively related to body mass index [beta 4.70 (95%CI: 2.06 to 7.34)] and diastolic blood pressure [4.97 (0.00 to 9.95)]. Distance from a community center (1600 m) was positively related to diastolic blood pressure [6.58 (1.57 to 11.58)] and inversely with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [− 69.30 (− 134.92 to − 3.70)]. Distance to a shopping center (1600 m) was positively related to body mass index [4.78 (1.11 to 8.45)] and shopping center (1000 m) was positively related to systolic blood pressure respectively [76.99 (0.03 to 83.95)]. CONCLUSION: Distance to community and shopping centers were significantly associated with BMI, systolic, diastolic blood pressure and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Future research should include multiple aspects of built environment variables in order to provide for a broader understanding of their effect on cardiovascular risk profile of African populations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMalambo, P. et al. (2018). The relationship between objectively measured attributes of the built environment and selected cardiovascular risk factors in a South African urban setting. BMC Public Health, 18: 847en_US
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5772-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3886
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectBuilt environmenten_US
dc.subjectWalkabilityen_US
dc.subjectPhysical activityen_US
dc.subjectGeographic information systemen_US
dc.subjectAccelerometeren_US
dc.subjectObjective measurementen_US
dc.subjectBody mass indexen_US
dc.subjectBlood pressureen_US
dc.subjectRisk factorsen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleThe relationship between objectively measured attributes of the built environment and selected cardiovascular risk factors in a South African urban settingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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