ArticleOphthalmic epidemiology2023
Self-Reported Vision Impairment and Food Insecurity in the US: National Health Interview Survey, 2011-2018.
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- Seeing the unseen: uncovering health-related social needs through universal screening at an academic ophthalmology practice.Eye (London, England) · 2025Article
- Food and Water Insecurity and Functional Disability in Adults.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Food insecurity and health conditions in the Australian adult population: A nationally representative analysis.Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia · 2025Article
- Vision impairment and food insecurity in the national health and aging trends study.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2024Article
- Vision difficulty and dementia: economic hardships among older adults and their caregivers.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2023Article
- Association between Food Insecurity and Vision Impairment among Older Adults: A Pooled Analysis of Data from Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Article
- Association between Food Insecurity and Chronic Eye Disease in the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program.Ophthalmology scienceArticle
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Abstract
purposeTo determine if vision impairment (VI) is associated with food insecurity among the United States (US) adults.
methodsThis is a cross-sectional study of US adults ≥18 years below a threshold of 150% poverty from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), years 2011-2018. Outcome measures included food insecurity status, based on response to the NHIS adult (10-item) food insecurity tool, either as a binary (food secure or insecure) or ordinal (high, marginal, low, and very low) variable. VI was defined as self-reported trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Multivariable logistic regression analyses adjusted for potential confounders examined associations between VI and food insecurity.
resultsParticipants (N = 62075) were majority female (57%), White (62%), and non-Hispanic (74%). Of them, 16% reported VI and 28% were food insecure. In fully adjusted logistic regression models, adults with VI had 216% higher odds (95% CI = 2.01-2.31) of being food insecure than adults without VI. Further, there was a dose-response relationship between VI and food insecurity noted in a multinomial model: VI predicted 159% higher risk of marginal food security (95% CI = 1.44-1.75), 197% higher risk of low food security (95% CI = 1.80-2.16), and 295% higher risk of very low food security (95% CI = 2.69-3.22), as compared to high food security.
conclusionVI is associated with food insecurity, increasingly so among adults with highest levels of food insecurity in this national sample of low-income US adults. This data highlights the need for targeted interventions to address and reduce the burden of food insecurity among US adults with VI.
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