TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - The importance of pedestrian network connectivity for adolescent health: a cross-sectional examination of associations between neighbourhood built environments and metabolic health in the Pacific Islands Families Birth Cohort Study
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Smith, Melody
A1  - Obolonkin, Vlad
A1  - Plank, Lindsay
A1  - Iusitini, Leon
A1  - Forsyth, Euan
A1  - Stewart, Tom
A1  - Paterson, Janis
A1  - Tautolo, El-Shadan
A1  - Savila, Fa'asisila
A1  - Rush, Elaine
SP  - e16183375
EP  - e16183375
VL  - 16
IS  - 18
N2  - The research aim was to investigate associations between objectively-assessed built environment attributes and metabolic risk in adolescents of Pacific Islands ethnicity, and to consider the possible mediating effect of physical activity and sedentary time. Youth (<i>n</i> = 204) undertook a suite of physical assessments including body composition, blood sampling, and blood pressure measurements, and seven day accelerometry. <br><br>OBJECTIVE measures of the neighbourhood built environment were generated around individual addresses. Logistic regression and linear modelling were used to assess associations between environment measures and metabolic health, accounting for physical activity behaviours. Higher pedestrian connectivity was associated with an increase in the chance of having any International Diabetes Federation metabolic risk factors for males only. Pedestrian connectivity was related to fat free mass in males in unadjusted analyses only. This study provides evidence for the importance of pedestrian network connectivity for health in adolescent males. Future research is required to expand the limited evidence in neighbourhood environments and adolescent metabolic health.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183375
ID  - ref1
ER  -