Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns:The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
dc.contributor.author | Franco, Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Diez Roux, Ana V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nettleton, Jennifer A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Latetia V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Brancati, F. L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Caballero, B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-02-16T18:13:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-02-16T18:13:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jan 14, 2009 as doi: doi:10.3945/ajcn.2008.26434 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61834> | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61834 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Inadequate availability of healthy foods may be a barrier to achieve recommended diets. Objective: The objective was to study the association between the directly measured availability of healthy foods and diet quality. Design: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 759 participants from the Baltimore site of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Diet was characterized by using a food-frequency questionnaire and summarized by using 2 empirically derived dietary patterns reflecting low- and high-quality diets. For each participant, the availability of healthy foods was directly assessed by using 3 measures: in all food stores within their census tract, in their closest food store, and in all food stores within 1 mile (1.6 km) of their residence. Results: Twenty-four percent of the black participants lived in neighborhoods with a low availability of healthy food compared with 5% of white participants (P < 0.01). After adjustment for age, sex, income, and education, a lower availability of healthy foods in the tract of residence or in the closest store was associated with higher scores on the low-quality dietary pattern (P < 0.05). Less consistent associations were observed for the high-quality dietary pattern. Conclusions: Healthy foods were less available for black participants. Low availability of healthy foods was associated with a lower quality diet. The extent to which improvements in the availability of healthy foods results in higher quality diets deserves further investigation. | en |
dc.format.extent | 76111 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Am J Clin Nutr | en |
dc.title | Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns:The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Epidemiology, Department of | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/61834/1/Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns. the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Epidemiology, Department of (SPH) |
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