Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns: the Multi-Ethnic
dc.contributor.author | Franco, Manuel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-10T20:46:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-10T20:46:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Am J Clin Nutr. 2009;89(3):897–904 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63443> | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63443 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=19144728&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Inadequate availability of healthy foods may be a barrier to achieving 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 lowavailability 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 lowerquality diet. The extent to which improvements in the availability of healthy foods results in higher-quality diets deserves further investigation | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The MESA is supported by contracts N01-HC-95159 through N01-HC- 95165 and N01-HC-95169 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. AVD-R was supported by grant R01-HL071759 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. FB was supported by the Mid-Career Mentorship Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24 DK62222) and Diabetes Research and Training Center Grant P60 DK079637. MF was supported by the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Fulbright Program. | en |
dc.format.extent | 129696 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | en |
dc.subject | Healthy Foods | en |
dc.subject | Mesa | en |
dc.title | Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns: the Multi-Ethnic | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Epidemiology, Department of | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.identifier.pmid | 19144728 | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63443/1/ajcn_availabilityofhealthyfoods.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Epidemiology, Department of (SPH) |
Files in this item
Remediation of Harmful Language
The University of Michigan Library aims to describe library materials in a way that respects the people and communities who create, use, and are represented in our collections. Report harmful or offensive language in catalog records, finding aids, or elsewhere in our collections anonymously through our metadata feedback form. More information at Remediation of Harmful Language.
Accessibility
If you are unable to use this file in its current format, please select the Contact Us link and we can modify it to make it more accessible to you.