Longitudinal Changes in the Retail Food Environment in Mexico and Their Association with Diabetes
Health & Place 66 (2020) 102461 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Health and Place journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/healthplace Longitudinal changes in the retail food environment in Mexico and their association with diabetes Carolina P´erez-Ferrer a,b, Amy H. Auchincloss c, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez a,*, M. Arantxa Colchero a, Leticia de Oliveira Cardoso d, Mariana Carvalho de Menezes e, Usama Bilal c a National Institute of Public Health, Avenida Universidad 655, Santa María Ahuacatitlan,´ 62100, Cuernavaca, Mexico b National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico c Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA d Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil, Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil e Federal University of Ouro Preto, R. Dois, 607, 35400-000, Ouro Preto, Brazil ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: The retail food environment is a potential population-level determinant of diet and nutrition-related chronic Built environment diseases, yet little is known about its composition and association with diabetes in low- and middle-income Food supply countries. Our objectives were: (1) to describe changes in the composition of the retail food environment in Type 2 diabetes mellitus Mexican neighborhoods from 2010 to 2016 and (2) to examine the association between these changes and Mexico diabetes cases diagnosed over the same period. Individual level data came from the 2016 Mexican Health and Urban health = Convenience foods Nutrition Survey (N 2808 adults). Neighborhood level retail food environment data for 2010 and 2016 came Supermarkets from the National Directory of Economic Units of Mexico. Multilevel logistic regression was used to examine the adjusted association between changes in the neighborhood density per km2 of fruit and vegetable stores, chain convenience stores and supermarkets with diabetes.
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