… retail food outlets and metabolic syndrome components. In future studies, researchers should
consider the use of standardized retail food … food environment on metabolic syndrome. …

… between healthy food outlet proximity, metabolic syndrome (MS), … The healthy food environment
was assessed via the number … The number of each type of food establishment in a 500 m …

… Direct measures of food environment and physical activity resources were also included.
Both “density of” and “distance to” measures were included for convenience/gas stations, …

… The built and food environments are widely acknowledged to play an important role in defining
… prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its environmental determinants in the …

… This study is part of the Place and Metabolic Syndrome project which investigates associations
between built environment attributes and cardio-metabolic risk factors. The study draws …

… These results are consistent with recent observations suggesting that local food environments
might affect health outcomes [27]. Our data are corroborated by the evidence that insulin …

… to recreational destinations, food outlets or … foods) [65], the total (mediator-unadjusted)
and direct, independent (fully-adjusted) effects of area SES on the membership to metabolic …

… For example, the introduction of large scale food retailing in a … fresh food stores is related to
residents’ perceptions of food … aimed at food awareness, affordability, and acceptability [35]. …

… Another example of the gene–environment relationship on risk of metabolic syndrome and
its complications is related to the alcohol consumption. Recently, it has been reported that …

… meal regularity and metabolic syndrome components, we … meal regularity and the metabolic
syndrome, we calculated the … obtained from changing our food regimens toward a more …