Comment:

Further analyses focused on a possible range of 12 obesity-related chronic conditions found in a systematic literature review and identified three leading cardiometabolic risk factors hypothesized to be related to the built environment, including hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, for separate individual analyses. Diagnoses of diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia were identified for each Medicare beneficiary for the calendar year 2011, using the 2011 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Master Beneficiary Summary File, Chronic Conditions Segment.