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| Title: | Associations of the Local Food Environment with Diet Quality—A Comparison of |
| Authors: | Moore, LV
Diez Roux, AV
Nettleton, JA
Jacobs, DR Jr. |
| Keywords: | diet
food
residence characteristics
social class |
| Issue Date: | 27-Feb-2008 |
| Publisher: | Am J Epidemiol |
| Citation: | Am J Epidemiol 2008;167:917–924 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58345> |
| Abstract: | There is growing interest in understanding how food environments affect diet, but characterizing the food environment is challenging. The authors investigated the relation between global diet measures (an empirically derived "fats and processed meats" (FPM) dietary pattern and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)) and three complementary measures of the local food environment: 1) supermarket density, 2) participant-reported assessments, and 3) aggregated survey responses of independent informants. Data were derived from the baseline examination (2000–2002) of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a US study of adults aged 45–84 years. A healthy diet was defined as scoring in the top or bottom quintile of AHEI or FPM, respectively. The probability of having a healthy diet was modeled by each environment measure using binomial regression. Participants with no supermarkets near their homes were 25–46% less likely to have a healthy diet than those with the most stores, after adjustment for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic indicators: The relative probability of a healthy diet for the lowest store density category versus the highest was 0.75 (95% confidence interval: 0.59, 0.95) for the AHEI and 0.54 (95% confidence interval: 0.42, 0.70) for FPM. Similarly, participants living in areas with the worst-ranked food environments (by participants or informants) were 22–35% less likely to have a healthy diet than those in the best-ranked food environments. Efforts to improve diet may benefit from combining individual and environmental approaches. |
| Appears in Collections: | Epidemiology, Department of (SPH)
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