ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2019
Living in Food Deserts and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease.
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- The Association between Community Food Environments and Health Outcomes in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Healthcare-based interventions to address food insecurity during pregnancy: a systematic review.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2023Pooled it
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- Cumulative Effects of Multiple Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Neighborhood-level deprivation measures in the United States: a scoping review and reference guide for investigators.BMC public health · 2026Article
- From food deserts to nutritional equity: exposing socioeconomic drivers of hypertension.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Article
- Mental stress as a trigger of cardiovascular events: A narrative review.European journal of clinical investigation · 2026Review
- Association Between Food Desert Residence and Ischemic Stroke Risk: A Population-Based Study.Neurology · 2025Article
- Social factors, health policy, and environment: implications for cardiovascular disease across the globe.European heart journal · 2025Review
- Sustained impacts of neighborhood investments on sleep health over a 5-year period: Insights from a natural experiment in two urban neighborhoods in the United States.Sleep health · 2025Article
- Conceptual Framework for Nutritional Psychology as a New Field of Research.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular disease.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Review
- Space for improvement: ZIP codes should not determine cardiovascular longevity, a scoping review.Trends in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Neighborhood Disadvantage and Inequities in Access to Preemptive and Living Kidney Transplantation.Kidney360 · 2025Article
- Identifying Nutritional Inequities of Patients with Cancer Residing in Food Deserts.Advances in radiation oncology · 2025Article
- Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for the Detection and Management of Colorectal Cancer Treatment.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Review
- The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2024Review
- Decoding the Foodome: Molecular Networks Connecting Diet and Health.Annual review of nutrition · 2024Review
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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 characteristics ( FD , poor access, and low income) and the rates of adverse events after adjusting for traditional risk factors. A total of 981 (20%) lived in FDs and had a higher adjusted risk of MI (subdistribution hazard ratio, 1.44 [95% CI, 1.06-1.95]) than those living in non- FDs . In a multivariate analysis including both food access and area income, only living in a low-income area was associated with a higher adjusted risk of MI (subdistribution hazard ratio, 1.40 [1.06-1.85]) and death/ MI (hazard ratio, 1.18 [1.02-1.35]) while living in a poor-access area was not significantly associated with either (subdistribution hazard ratio, 1.05 [0.80-1.38] and hazard ratio, 0.99 [0.87-1.14], respectively). Conclusions Living in an FD is associated with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events in those with coronary artery disease. Specifically, low area income of FDs , not poor access to food, was significantly associated with worse outcomes.
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