Exposure to Neighborhood Crime Is Associated with Lower Levels of Physical Activity and Higher Obesity Risk among Adolescent Girls, but Not Boys.
CONCLUSION: Prevention efforts focused on encouraging adolescents to be physically active need to account for gender-specific barriers to exercise outdoors.
PMID: 30508407 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Childhood Obesity - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Tags: Child Obes Source Type: research
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