The association between urban form and physical activity in U.S. adults.
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Summary
The results support the hypothesis that environmental variables influence walking frequency and suggest that home age may be a useful proxy for features of the urban environment that influence physical activity in the form of walking.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2002-08-01
- Cited by
- 289
- References
- 25
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2021074582
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27425358
Keywords
Proxy (statistics), Ethnic group, Odds, Logistic regression, Association (psychology)
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