Dietary patterns among U.S. food insecure cancer survivors and the risk of mortality: NHANES 1999-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Food insecurity-the lack of unabated access to nutritious foods-is a consequence many cancer survivors face. Food insecurity is associated with adverse health outcomes and lower diet quality in the general public. The goal of this analysis was to extract major and prevailing dietary patterns among food insecure cancer survivors from observed 24-h recall data and evaluate their relationship to survival after a cancer diagnosis.

Methods

We implemented two dietary patterns analysis approaches: penalized logistic regression and principal components analysis. Using nationally representative data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) study, we extracted three dietary patterns. Additionally, we evaluated the HEI-2015 for comparison. Cox proporti

SUBMITTER: Maino Vieytes CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11217055 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature