Yasemin Algur, Pasquale E Rummo, Tara P McAlexander, S Shanika A De Silva, Gina S Lovasi, Suzanne E Judd, Victoria Ryan, Gargya Malla, Alain K Koyama, David C Lee, Lorna E Thorpe, Leslie A McClure
BACKGROUND: Communities in the United States (US) exist on a continuum of urbanicity, which may inform how individuals interact with their food environment, and thus modify the relationship between food access and dietary behaviors. OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional study aims to examine the modifying effect of community type in the association between the relative availability of food outlets and dietary inflammation across the US. METHODS: Using baseline data from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study (2003-2007), we calculated participants' dietary inflammation score (DIS)...
September 20, 2023: International Journal of Health Geographics