Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto have published a study in the journal Diabetes Care, examining the connection between neighborhood walkability and diabetes.

The study looked at data from more than one million residents to assess the impact of neighborhood walkability on diabetes incidence for long-term residents relative to recent immigrants, and found that neighborhood walkability was “a strong predictor of diabetes incidence independent of age and area income, particularly among recent immigrants.”