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Multicollinearity in Associations Between Multiple Environmental Features and Body Weight and Abdominal Fat: Using Matching Techniques to Assess Whether the Associations are Separable

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Because of the strong correlations among neighborhoods' characteristics, it is not clear whether the associations of specific environmental exposures (e.g., densities of physical features and services) with obesity can be disentangled. Using data from the RECORD (Residential Environment and Coronary Heart Disease) Cohort Study (Paris, France, 20072008), the authors investigated whether neighborhood characteristics related to the sociodemographic, physical, service-related, and social-interactional environments were associated with body mass index and waist circumference. The authors developed an original neighborhood characteristic-matching technique (analyses within pairs of participants similarly exposed to an environmental variable) to assess whether or not these associations could be disentangled. After adjustment for individual/neighborhood socioeconomic variables, body mass index/waist circumference was negatively associated with characteristics of the physical/service environments reflecting higher densities (e.g., proportion of built surface, densities of shops selling fruits/vegetables, and restaurants). Multiple adjustment models and the neighborhood characteristic-matching technique were unable to identify which of these neighborhood variables were driving the associations because of high correlations between the environmental variables. Overall, beyond the socioeconomic environment, the physical and service environments may be associated with weight status, but it is difficult to disentangle the effects of strongly correlated environmental dimensions, even if they imply different causal mechanisms and interventions. © 2012 The Author.

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hal-03703896 , version 1 (24-06-2022)

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Cinira Leal, Kathy Bean, Frédérique Thomas, Basile Chaix. Multicollinearity in Associations Between Multiple Environmental Features and Body Weight and Abdominal Fat: Using Matching Techniques to Assess Whether the Associations are Separable. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2012, 175 (11), pp.1152-1162. ⟨10.1093/aje/kwr434⟩. ⟨hal-03703896⟩
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