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@article{Fernández-Barrés:2022:10.1016/j.envint.2022.107319,
author = {Fernández-Barrés, S and Robinson, O and Fossati, S and Márquez, S and Basagaña, X and de, Bont J and de, Castro M and Donaire-Gonzalez, D and Maitre, L and Nieuwenhuijsen, M and Romaguera, D and Urquiza, J and Chatzi, L and Iakovides, M and Vafeiadi, M and Grazuleviciene, R and Dedele, A and Andrusaityte, S and Marit, Aasvang G and Evandt, J and Hjertager, Krog N and Lepeule, J and Heude, B and Wright, J and RC, McEachan R and Sassi, F and Vineis, P and Vrijheid, M},
doi = {10.1016/j.envint.2022.107319},
journal = {Environment International},
title = {Urban environment and health behaviours in children from six European countries},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107319},
volume = {165},
year = {2022}
}

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AB  - Background:Urban environmental design is increasingly considered influential for health and wellbeing, but evidence is mostly based on adults and single exposure studies. We evaluated the association between a wide range of urban environment characteristics and health behaviours in childhood.Methods:We estimated exposure to 32 urban environment characteristics (related to the built environment, traffic, and natural spaces) for home and school addresses of 1,581 children aged 6-11 years from six European cohorts. We collected information on health behaviours including total amount of overall moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, physical activity outside school hours, active transport, sedentary behaviours and sleep duration, and developed patterns of behaviours with principal component analysis. We used an exposure-wide association study to screen all exposure-outcome associations, and the deletion-substitution-addition algorithm to build a final multi-exposure model.Results:In multi-exposure models, green spaces (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI) were positively associated with active transport, and inversely associated with sedentary time (22.71 min/day less (95%CI -39.90, -5.51) per interquartile range increase in NDVI). Residence in densely built areas was associated with more physical activity and less sedentary time, and densely populated areas with less physical activity outside school hours and more sedentary time. Presence of a major road was associated with lower sleep duration (-4.80 min/day (95%CI -9.11, -0.48); compared with no major road). Results for the behavioural patterns were similar.Conclusions:This multicohort study suggests that areas with more vegetation, more building density, less population density and without major roads are associated with improved health behaviours in childhood.
AU  - Fernández-Barrés,S
AU  - Robinson,O
AU  - Fossati,S
AU  - Márquez,S
AU  - Basagaña,X
AU  - de,Bont J
AU  - de,Castro M
AU  - Donaire-Gonzalez,D
AU  - Maitre,L
AU  - Nieuwenhuijsen,M
AU  - Romaguera,D
AU  - Urquiza,J
AU  - Chatzi,L
AU  - Iakovides,M
AU  - Vafeiadi,M
AU  - Grazuleviciene,R
AU  - Dedele,A
AU  - Andrusaityte,S
AU  - Marit,Aasvang G
AU  - Evandt,J
AU  - Hjertager,Krog N
AU  - Lepeule,J
AU  - Heude,B
AU  - Wright,J
AU  - RC,McEachan R
AU  - Sassi,F
AU  - Vineis,P
AU  - Vrijheid,M
DO  - 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107319
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0160-4120
TI  - Urban environment and health behaviours in children from six European countries
T2  - Environment International
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107319
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202200246X?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97123
VL  - 165
ER  -

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