Personal and neighborhood socioeconomic status and indices of neighborhood walk-ability predict body mass index in New York City.

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Published in Soc Sci Med on October 25, 2008

Authors

Andrew Rundle1, Sam Field, Yoosun Park, Lance Freeman, Christopher C Weiss, Kathryn Neckerman

Author Affiliations

1: Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, New York, NY 10032, USA. agr3@columbia.edu

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