title: Health Implications of Adults' Eating at and Living near Fast Food or Quick Service Restaurants.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This paper examined whether the reported health impacts of frequent eating at a fast food or quick service restaurant on health were related to having such a restaurant near home.
  
  
  METHODS
  Logistic regressions estimated associations between frequent fast food or quick service restaurant use and health status, being overweight or obese, having a cardiovascular disease or diabetes, as binary health outcomes. In all, 2001 participants in the 2008-2009 Seattle Obesity Study survey were included in the analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed eating ⩾2 times a week at a fast food or quick service restaurant was associated with perceived poor health status, overweight and obese. However, living close to such restaurants was not related to negative health outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Frequent eating at a fast food or quick service restaurant was associated with perceived poor health status and higher body mass index, but living close to such facilities was not.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.affiliation: Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Moudon
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Hurvitz
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drewnowski