Spatial patterns of obesity and associated risk factors in the conterminous U.S

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Akihiko Michimi, Michael Charles Wimberly

Abstract

The obesogenic environment is hypothesized to increase obesity risk by discouraging physical activity and limiting the availability of healthy food. This research reports the prevalence of obesity and risk factors (physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption) by creating spatially smoothed maps and analyzing local autocorrelation and aims to examine associations of obesity and risk factors at the national level. Data were obtained in 2008 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for the years 2000-2006 aggregated to the county level. A weighted head-banging smoothing algorithm was used that effectively replaced the proportion of obesity and risk factors for each county with a weighted median that incorporates data from neighboring counties. Significant spatial clusters of obesity and risk factors were identified by a local Moran's I analysis. All analyses were performed in 2008-2009. A higher prevalence of obesity was generally found in the non-metro counties of the South, whereas lower prevalence was found in the West and the Northeast. A lower prevalence of leisure-time physical activity was generally found in the areas where obesity prevalence was higher and vice versa. A lower prevalence of fruit and ve...Continue Reading

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