Food Insecurity and Ideal Cardiovascular Health Risk Factors Among US Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food insecurity, a social and economic condition of limited availability of healthy food, is a risk factor for adverse cardiovascular health outcomes among adults; few studies have been conducted in adolescents. This study explores the association between food insecurity and cardiovascular health risk factors among a nationally representative sample of US adolescents, adopting the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 metric.

Methods and results

We analyzed data from 2534 adolescents aged 12 to 19 years from the 2013 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. In the sample, 24.8% of adolescents lived in food-insecure households. After multivariable adjustment, food insecurity was associated with a 3.23-unit lower total Life's Essential 8

SUBMITTER: Hammad NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11262504 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature