Early Life Food Desert Status Is Associated With Alpha and Gamma-Tocopherol Levels and Infant Lung Function.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Living in a food desert (an area with limited access to affordable and nutritious food) is associated with a higher prevalence of childhood asthma. There is a lack of information regarding the impact of spending the first year of life in a food desert on subsets of Vitamin E (α- and γ-tocopherol) levels and lung development.

Objective

Determine if living in a food desert at 3 months of life is associated with altered α- and γ-tocopherol, and infant lung measurements.

Design

Newborns recruited within 1 week of delivery and prospectively followed for 3 months. 32 infants had sedated lung function tests and 50 had food desert data for analysis along with serum for α-tocopherol and γ-tocopherol analysis.

Participants

Fifty (50) infants within the prospec

SUBMITTER: Wolff GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853406 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature