Timing of household food insecurity exposures and asthma in a cohort of US school-aged children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food insecurity is positively associated with asthma, the most common chronic childhood disease, yet directionality is unclear. The objective was to determine the association between exposure to food insecurity in early childhood and the odds of asthma later in childhood.

Design

Data from four waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) cohort, a prospective, dual-frame, multistage probability cluster sampling study of school-aged US children were entered in multivariate logistic regression models, adjusted for covariates. Exposures to food insecurity were based on parental responses to the validated USDA 18-item module at each wave.

Setting

Public and private primary and secondary schools between 1998 and 2007.

Participants

SUBMITTER: Mangini LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6278782 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature