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The correlation between supermarket size and national obesity prevalence

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Obesity, December 2014
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Title
The correlation between supermarket size and national obesity prevalence
Published in
BMC Obesity, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/s40608-014-0027-z
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Authors

Adrian J Cameron, Wilma E Waterlander, Chalida M Svastisalee

Abstract

Supermarkets provide healthy and affordable food options while simultaneously heavily promoting energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods and drinks. Store size may impact body weight via multiple mechanisms. Large stores encourage purchasing of more food in a single visit, and in larger packages. In addition they provide greater product choice (usually at lower prices) and allow greater exposure to foods of all types. These characteristics may promote purchasing and consumption. Our objective was to assess the relationship between supermarket size and obesity, which has rarely been assessed. Data on supermarket size (measured as total aisle length in metres) was from 170 stores in eight developed countries with Western-style diets. Data for national obesity prevalence was obtained from the UK National Obesity Observatory. We found a strong correlation between average store size and national obesity prevalence (r = 0.96). Explanations for the association between store size and national obesity prevalence may include larger and less frequent shopping trips and greater choice and exposure to foods in countries with larger stores. Large supermarkets may represent a food system that focuses on quantity ahead of quality and therefore may be an important and novel environmental indicator of a pattern of behaviour that encourages obesity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Belgium 1 3%
Switzerland 1 3%
Unknown 31 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 26%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 12%
Student > Postgraduate 4 12%
Researcher 4 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 4 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 29%
Social Sciences 7 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 9%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Other 6 18%
Unknown 6 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 June 2016.
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#774,707
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#16
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Outputs of similar age
#9,046
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Obesity
#2
of 8 outputs
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