Food Environment Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in the United States: a County-Level Analysis from 2017 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Upstream socioeconomic circumstances including food insecurity and food desert are important drivers of community-level health disparities in cardiovascular mortality let alone traditional risk factors. The study assessed the association between differences in food environment quality and cardiovascular mortality in US adults.

Design

Retrospective analysis of the association between cardiovascular mortality among US adults aged 45 and above and food environment quality, measured as the food environment index (FEI), in 2615 US counties. FEI was measured by equal weights of food insecurity (limited access to a reliable food source) and food desert (limited access to healthy food), ranging from 0 (worst) to 10 (best). Age-adjusted cardiovascular mortality rates per 1

SUBMITTER: Parekh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10853151 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature