In 2004, the first American Heart Association scientific statement on “Air Pollution and
Cardiovascular Disease” concluded that exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution …

The past few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in neighborhood or area effects
on health. Several types of empiric studies have been used to examine possible area or …

▪ Abstract Over the past few years there has been growing interest in considering factors
defined at multiple levels in public health research. Multilevel analysis has emerged as one …

Abstract The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis was initiated in July 2000 to investigate
the prevalence, correlates, and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a …

Features of neighborhoods or residential environments may affect health and contribute to
social and race/ethnic inequalities in health. The study of neighborhood health effects has …

A large portion of current epidemiologic research is based on methodologic individualism:
the notion that the distribution of health and disease in populations can be explained …

Objectives. We investigated associations between local food environment and
neighborhood racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition. Methods. Poisson regression …

Epidemiology, sociology, and geography have been successful in re-establishing interest in
the role of place in shaping health and health inequalities. However, some of the relevant …

The authors investigated whether neighborhood socioeconomic charactenstics are
associated with coronary heart disease prevalence and risk factors, whether these …

There is growing interest in understanding how food environments affect diet, but
characterizing the food environment is challenging. The authors investigated the relation …