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> Like previous studies, we find that youth living in neighborhoods with high levels of violence have worse cardiometabolic health than peers from safer communi
by hirundo 8y ago
> Like previous studies, we find that youth living in neighborhoods with high levels of violence have worse cardiometabolic health than peers from safer communities.
I find these results intuitive and not hard to accept, but I see no mention of an attempt to rule out confounding elements that may correlate to violence, such as poverty. And with only 218 subjects there may well not be enough statistical power to do so.
Of course I can only see the abstract without paying $10, so it may be buried in the details.
- notahacker 8y agoPaper is downloadable free on SciHub http://sci-hub.tw/10.1073/pnas.1810067115 http://sci-hub.tw/10.1073/pnas.1810067115 TLDR version: it's controlled for a few neighbourhood factors such as median household income, distance from nearest food outlet and ethnic mix and a few individual factors like personal experience of violence and behavioural evaluations. But ruling out all the confounding factors is hard. The authors are cautious about causality in their summary though