Anza-Ramirez, CeciliaLazo, MarianaZafra-Tanaka, Jessica HanaeAvila-Palencia, IoneBilal, UsamaHernández-Vásquez, AkramKnoll, CarolynLopez-Olmedo, NancyMazariegos, MónicaMoore, Kari A.Rodriguez, Daniel A.Sarmiento, Olga L.Stern, DaliaTumas, NataliaMiranda, Juan Jaime2024-05-072024-05-072022Anza-Ramirez C, Lazo M, Zafra-Tanaka JH, Avila-Palencia I, Bilal U, Hernández-Vásquez A, et al. The urban built environment and adult BMI, obesity, and diabetes in Latin American cities. Nat Commun. 2022 Dec 29;13(1):7977. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35648-whttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60045Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.Latin America is the world’s most urbanized region and its heterogeneous urban development may impact chronic diseases. Here, we evaluated the association of built environment characteristics at the sub-city —intersection density, greenness, and population density— and city-level —fragmentation and isolation— with body mass index (BMI), obesity, and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Data from 93,280 (BMI and obesity) and 122,211 individuals (T2D) was analysed across 10 countries. Living in areas with higher intersection density was positively associated with BMI and obesity, whereas living in more fragmented and greener areas were negatively associated. T2D was positively associated with intersection density, but negatively associated with greenness and population density. The rapid urban expansion experienced by Latin America provides unique insights and vastly expand opportunities for population-wide urban interventions aimed at reducing obesity and T2D burden.application/pdfengThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.ObesitatDiabetisAmèrica Llatinainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35648-winfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess