The food environment has been shown to influence dietary patterns, which ultimately affects
nutrition-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) …

Diet is among the most important modifiable risk factors for morbidity and mortality
worldwide, primarily through the development of cardiometabolic disease. Most Canadians …

Background: Food environment factors contribute to cardiovascular disease, but their effect
on population-level heart failure (HF) mortality is unclear. Methods: We utilized the National …

Background Upstream socioeconomic circumstances including food insecurity and food
desert are important drivers of community-level health disparities in cardiovascular mortality …

Studies aimed as measuring how local food environments (LFEs) might influence disease
progression and management are described in Chapters 4 and 5. This research has shown …

Introduction Research examining the influence of neighborhood healthy food environment
on diet has been mostly cross-sectional and has lacked robust characterization of the food …

Background: Existing research has established a link between dietary intake and adiposity
measures, including body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). However, less is …

Abstract Purpose of Review To evaluate the multidimensional influence of food
environments on food choice, dietary quality, and diet-related health and identify critical …

Objectives. To examine the associations between obesity and multiple aspects of the food
environments, at home and in the neighborhood. Methods. Our study included 38 650 …

There is growing interest in understanding how food environments affect diet, but
characterizing the food environment is challenging. The authors investigated the relation …