Neighbourhood built environment

1. Neighbourhood built environment is associated with diet quality in humans.

   “but also counterintuitively with lower fruit and vegetable diet quality.”

   Humansrelative food environment advantage pattern in high cardiovascular risk patientsn = 475

   Identifying co-occurring neighbourhood environmental patterns and their association with health behaviours in a Dutch urban population at high cardiometabolic risk

   BMC public health·7 Jul 2026

1. Neighbourhood built environment lowers the risk of overweight in humans.

   “The "Relative food environment advantage" pattern showed the most consistent association across models with lower odds of being overweight”

   Humansrelative food environment advantage pattern in high cardiovascular risk patientsn = 475

   Identifying co-occurring neighbourhood environmental patterns and their association with health behaviours in a Dutch urban population at high cardiometabolic risk

   BMC public health·7 Jul 2026

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