Residential density was negatively associated with excess body weight among adults in an urban region of China

• Na Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Na Wang, Fei Xu

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

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• Zhiyong Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

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• Zhenzhen Qin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

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• Qing Ye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

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• Peng Jia,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations GeoHealth Initiative, Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Zhen Xu,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

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• Yaqing Xiong ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiongyaqingnj@126.com (YX); frankxufei@163.com (FX)

  Affiliation Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, China

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• Fei Xu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Na Wang, Fei Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiongyaqingnj@126.com (YX); frankxufei@163.com (FX)

  Affiliations Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China, GeoHealth Initiative, Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), Enschede, The Netherlands, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1785-3635

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