Obesity Linked To Income, Education; Not Sprawl, University of Illinois Study

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Obesity Linked To Income, Education; Not Sprawl, University of Illinois Study
2/8/2011

Medical News Today -- Obesity is more prevalent in areas with lower educational attainment and certain ethnic profiles than in areas of suburban sprawl, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Researchers at UIC's Urban Transportation Center revisited their 2005 analysis of data from about 7 million northern Illinois drivers licenses, which found that body-mass index scores in most city neighborhoods differ little from those in the farthest outlying areas.