Association of Living in a Food Desert and Poor Periconceptional Diet Quality in a Cohort of Nulliparous Pregnant Individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A poor diet can result from adverse social determinants of health and increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Objective

We aimed to assess, using data from the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-Be prospective cohort, whether nulliparous pregnant individuals who lived in a food desert were more likely to experience poorer periconceptional diet quality compared with those who did not live in a food desert.

Methods

The exposure was living in a food desert based on a spatial overview of food access indicators by income and supermarket access per the Food Access Research Atlas. The outcome was periconceptional diet quality per the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2010, analyzed by quartile (Q) from the highest or best (Q4, reference

SUBMITTER: Venkatesh KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10447609 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature