Self-Rated Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Health Among U.S. Adults, 2011-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Self-rated health has been extensively studied, but the utility of a similarly structured question to rate diet quality is not well characterized. This study aims to assess the relative validity of self-rated diet quality, compared with that of a validated diet quality measure (Healthy Eating Index-2015) and to examine the associations with cardiometabolic risk factors.

Methods

Analyses were conducted in 2020-2021 using cross-sectional data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2018. Nonpregnant adults who responded to the question: How healthy is your overall diet? and provided 2 dietary recalls were eligible (n=16,913). Associations between self-rated diet quality (modeled as a 5-point continuous variable, poor=1 to excellent=5) and H

SUBMITTER: Sullivan VK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8523030 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature