Socio-economic factors associated with an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption: a 12-year study in women from the E3N-EPIC study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify individual and contextual socio-economic factors associated with an increase in fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption over a 12-year period and evaluate if some socio-economic factors were differentially associated with the change in consumption of some types of F&V.

Design

Associations between increased F&V consumption and socio-economic factors were studied with multivariate logistic regression.

Setting

E3N, a French prospective cohort study of 98 995 women.

Subjects

E3N participants (n 58 193) with information on diet in 1993 and 2005, and numerous individual and contextual socio-economic factors available.

Results

Associations between some individual socio-economic factors and changes in F&V consumption were observed. For instan

SUBMITTER: Affret A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261334 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature