Socio-economic and cultural disparities in diet among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore dietary differences according to socio-economic and sociocultural characteristics of adolescents and young adults.

Design

A systematic review was conducted.

Setting

The main search source was MEDLINE, consulted between January 2012 and March 2017. Quality of selected studies was assessed based on dietary measurement method, sample selection, socio-economic indicator choice and statistical modelling.

Participants

Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, assessing relationships between socio-economic status and dietary intake (patterns, scores and food groups) in the 10- to 40-year-old general population of high-income countries, were selected.

Results

Among the 7250 reports identified, forty were selected, seventeen of which were of

SUBMITTER: Desbouys L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200431 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature