Living in Food Deserts and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background Food deserts ( FDs ), defined as low-income communities with limited access to healthy food, are a growing public health concern. We evaluated the impact of living in FDs on incident cardiovascular events. Methods and Results We recruited 4944 subjects (age 64±12, 64% male) undergoing cardiac catheterization into the Emory Cardiovascular Biobank. Using the US Department of Agriculture definition of FD , we determined whether their residential addresses had (1) poor access to healthy food, (2) low income, or (3) both (= FD ). Subjects were prospectively followed for a median of 3.2 years for myocardial infarction (MI) and death. Fine and Gray's subdistribution hazard models for MI and Cox proportional hazard models for death/ MI were used to examine the association between area c

SUBMITTER: Kelli HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405658 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature