Rand Corp.

Study: sprawl linked to chronic ailments

Published in Law and Health Weekly, October 23rd, 2004

Warning: Suburban sprawl may be hazardous to your health.

A new report has found that people who live in sprawling metropolitan areas are more likely to report chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties than residents of more compact cities.

The difference - which remained even when researchers accounted for factors such as age, economic status and race - may have something to do with the way people get around in more spread-out cities.

"People drive more in these areas; they walk less," said Roland Sturm, co-author of the report by Rand Corp., a nonprofit research...

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