Food deserts and cardiovascular health among young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study assesses the association between living in a food desert and cardiovascular health risk among young adults in the USA, as well as evaluates whether personal and area socioeconomic status moderates this relationship.

Design

A cross-sectional analysis was performed using data from Wave I (1993-1994) and Wave IV (2008) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Ordinary least squares regression models assessing the association between living in a food desert and cardiovascular health were performed. Mediation and moderation analyses assessed the degree to which this association was conditioned by area and personal socioeconomic status.

Setting

Sample of respondents living in urban census tracts in the USA in 2008.

Particip

SUBMITTER: Testa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195490 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature