Obes Facts 2012;5(suppl 1):1–280 Abstracts 55 T1:PS1 - Built and Social Environment (Urban Ecology) 180 accepted poster ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL FACTORS, BUILT AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY AMONG ADULTS FROM BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL L. Mendes 1 , M. M. Ferrão 2 , D. Malta 1 , H. Nogueira 3 , C. Padez 4 , G. Velásquez-Melendez 1 1 ESCOLA DE ENFERMAGEM - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS, Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-infantil em Saúde Pública. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH, Department of Life Sciences - University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 3 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Department of Geography, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 4 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences - University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Abstract Text: Built and Social Environments play a significant role in health. Globally, obesity is a serious social and public health problem. That’s why is so crucial to understand how environmental factors can stimulate behaviors that promote overweight and obesity.A cross-sectional study was carried out in a sample of 3405 adults (49,8% men and 50,2% women, mean age 39,7 years) in the urban area of Belo Horizonte (BH). Information from the Surveillance System for Chronic Diseases of Brazilian Ministry of Health was used and individual factors were collected by telephone interviews (VIGITEL, 2008/09). Geo-referenced variables from the built and social environment were also used. In this sample 32,9% of the participants were overweight (BMI>= 25Kg/m 2 ) and 12,7% were obese (BMI>=30Kg/m 2 ). Multilevel Poisson regression was used to create the final model adjusted for age and gender. The variables that were independently associated with adult overweight/obesity were: watching TV every day of the week (PR= 1,179), low self-reported health status (PR= 1,370), high population den- sity (PR= 0,837) and the highest health vulnerability index category (PR= 1,313). In the urban area of BH the prevalence of overweight/obesity was associated with sedentary lifestyle, poor/regular self-reported health status, high population density and with environments considered vulnerable to health. Conflict of Interest: None Disclosed.Each author has seen and approved the contents of the submitted abstract. Funding: This study was supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPQ) 181 accepted poster ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PARENTAL PERCEPTION OF RESI- DENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD ENVIRONMENT AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN OPORTO, PORTUGAL M. M. Ferrão 1 , L. Mendes 2 , A. Gama 3 , I. Mourão 4 , H. Nogueira 5 , V. Rosado 6 , G. Velásquez-Melendez 2 , C. Padez 1 1 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences - University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 2 ESCOLA DE ENFERMAGEM - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS, Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-infantil em Saúde Pública. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 3 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Coimbra, Portugal 4 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Department of Sports, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Coimbra, Portugal 5 RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Department of Geography, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 6 RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH (CIAS), Center of Anthropobiology, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon, Coimbra, Portugal Abstract Text: Nowadays environment has been thought to have contributed to the current epidemic of obesity and parental perceptions of the residential environment may potentially be an important influence on children’s weight status. Anthropometric measures of height and weight were taken on 2641 children in preschools and elementary schools in Oporto. BMI was calculated and the IOTF cut-offs were used. Parents filled out the "Environmental Module" standard questionnaire of the International Physical Activity Prevalence Study (IPS, 2002). For data analysis were used Chi Square test and the Logistic regression model adjusted for age, gender, maternal education and school clusters. In T1 - E NVIRONMENT AND P REVENTION Posters T1:PS1 – BUILT AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT (URBAN ECOLOGY) Downloaded by: 5.64.6.30 - 6/8/2014 10:32:06 PM