The built environment is a significant contributor to obesity, but previous studies have focused more on the built environment at residential areas, ignoring that at other geographical contexts. This study introduces an innovative framework to …
we develop a continuous, age-sex-ethnicity-specific MetS score based on continuous measures of the five metabolic dysfunctions (waist circumference [WC], triglycerides [TG], high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C], mean arterial pressure [MAP], and fasting blood glucose [FBG]).
Background, The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity has contributed to the growing global burden of chronic diseases over the life course, which has been largely attributed to obesogenic environments. This giant-scale review was done to …