Accessibility and Affordability of Supermarkets: Associations With the DASH Diet.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It is unknown whether there is an interplay of affordability (economic accessibility) and proximity (geographic accessibility) of supermarkets in relation to having a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-accordant diet.

Methods

Data (collected: 2005-2015, analyzed: 2016) were from the cross-sectional, population-based Fenland Study cohort: 9,274 adults aged 29-64 years, living in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Dietary quality was evaluated using an index of DASH dietary accordance, based on recorded consumption of foods and beverages in a validated 130-item, semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. DASH accordance was defined as a DASH score in the top quintile. Dietary costs (£/day) were estimated by attributing a food price variable to the fo

SUBMITTER: Mackenbach JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5478361 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature