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Table 2 Summary of quantitative results in selected reviews

From: Associations between the built environment and obesity: an umbrella review

Study#

First author

No. of primary studies

% longitudinal

No. of continents covered

No. of countries covered

Overall quality

Domain

% of findings in expected direction

Urbanicity

Food

PA

Socio-econ

Pollution

1

An

16

50

3

4

2

0

0

0

0

1

11

2

Cobb

71

15

1

2

2

0

1

0

0

0

19

3

Durand

44

11

3

6

3

1

1

1

0

0

33

4

Feng

63

6

3

7

2

0

1

1

0

0

50

5

Ferdinand

169

N/A

N/A

N/A

2

0

1

1

0

0

89

6

Fleischghacker

40

3

3

5

2

0

1

0

0

0

60

7

Fraser

33

3

3

5

2

0

1

0

0

0

46

8

Gamba

51

14

1

1

3

0

1

0

0

0

32

9

Giskes

28

0

4

6

2

0

0

0

1

0

46

10

Lachowycz

60

0

3

9

2

0

0

1

0

0

21

11

Papas

20

10

3

3

2

0

1

1

0

0

85

12

Schule and Bolte

33

3

3

7

3

0

0

0

1

0

36

13

Sugiyama

41

17

4

9

2

0

0

1

0

0

39

14

Tseng

17

0

3

3

1

0

1

1

0

0

44

15

Wilkins

113

20

3

5

1

0

1

1

0

0

11

  1. #No. of studies: number of primary studies included, % longitudinal: percentage of primary studies that were longitudinal, no. of continents: number of continents present in the review, no. of countries: number of countries present in the review, overall quality: ROBIS results of the review as assessed in our umbrella review, domains depicted the different domains that were covered in the review and % expected associations is the percentage of associations in the review that was in the expected/ theorized direction. Domain names: PA physical activity, socioecon social inequality