Does food vendor density mediate the association between neighborhood deprivation and BMI?: a G-computation mediation analysis.

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Published in Epidemiology on May 01, 2015

Authors

Y Tara Zhang1, Barbara A Laraia, Mahasin S Mujahid, Aracely Tamayo, Samuel D Blanchard, E Margaret Warton, N Maggi Kelly, Howard H Moffet, Dean Schillinger, Nancy Adler, Andrew J Karter

Author Affiliations

1: From the aSchool of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, bSchool of Public Health, Division of Community Health and Child Development, cDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA; dKaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA; and eSchool of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

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