Are serum cholesterol levels associated with silent brain infarcts?
Our cross-sectional data suggest that serum cholesterol levels are associated with SBI independently of known confounders.
Where people shop for groceries and distance traveled to grocery stores are independently associated with BMI. Exposure to grocery store mediates and suppresses the association of residential neighborhoods with BMI and could explain why previous studies may not have found robust associations between residential neighborhood predictors and BMI.