Fast food restaurants and food stores: longitudinal associations with diet in young to middle-aged adults: the CARDIA study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A growing body of cross-sectional, small-sample research has led to policy strategies to reduce food deserts--neighborhoods with little or no access to healthy foods--by limiting fast food restaurants and small food stores and increasing access to supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods.

Methods

We used 15 years of longitudinal data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, a cohort of US young adults (aged 18-30 years at baseline) (n = 5115), with linked time-varying geographic information system-derived food resource measures. Using repeated measures from 4 examination periods (n = 15,854 person-examination observations) and conditional regression (conditioned on the individual), we modeled fast food consumption, diet quality, an

SUBMITTER: Boone-Heinonen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3178268 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature