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Geographic Clustering of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Metropolitan Centres in France and Australia

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Understanding how health outcomes are spatially distributed represents a first step in investigating the scale and nature of environmental influences on health and has important implications for statistical power and analytic efficiency. Using Australian and French cohort data, this study aimed to describe and compare the extent of geographic variation, and the implications for analytic efficiency, across geographic units, countries and a range of cardiometabolic parameters (Body Mass Index (BMI) waist circumference, blood pressure, resting heart rate, triglycerides, cholesterol, glucose, HbA 1c). Geographic clustering was assessed using Intra-Class Correlation (ICC) coefficients in biomedical cohorts from Adelaide (Australia, n = 3893) and Paris (France, n = 6430) for eight geographic administrative units. The median ICC was 0.01 suggesting 1% of risk factor variance attributable to variation between geographic units. Clustering differed by cardiometabolic parameters, administrative units and countries and was greatest for BMI and resting heart rate in the French sample, HbA 1c in the Australian sample, and for smaller geographic units. Analytic inefficiency due to clustering was greatest for geographic units in which participants were nested in fewer, larger geographic units. Differences observed in geographic clustering across risk factors have implications for choice of geographic unit in sampling and analysis, and highlight potential crosscountry differences in the distribution, or role, of environmental features related to cardiometabolic health.
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hal-01321291 , version 1 (25-05-2016)

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Catherine Paquet, Basile Chaix, Natasha Howard, Neil Coffee, Robert Adams, et al.. Geographic Clustering of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Metropolitan Centres in France and Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016, 13 (5), ⟨10.3390/ijerph13050519⟩. ⟨hal-01321291⟩
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