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Dietary Patterns among Smokers and Non-Smokers: Findings from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017-2018.

Wenxue Lin, Hani A Alfheeaid, Ibrahim Alasqah, Nada Alqarawi, Saad Abdullah Alotaibi, Fatmah Fahad Alribdi, Sulaiman Almutairi, Maria João Lima, Edite Teixeira-Lemos, António Raposo

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Article in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Training a Smoking Status Probabilistic Model Using Cotinine Levels in a Large Claims Database.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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10 authors.

Wenxue LinDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8245-9063
Hani A AlfheeaidDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, College of Agriculture and Food, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-3700-4086
Ibrahim AlasqahDepartment of Community, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-0316-1374
Nada AlqarawiDepartment of Community, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1814-2248
Saad Abdullah AlotaibiDepartment of Public Health, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.
Fatmah Fahad AlribdiDirector of Model of Care, Qassim Health Cluster, Buraydah 52367, Saudi Arabia.
Sulaiman AlmutairiDepartment of Health Informatics, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-4810-6018
Maria João LimaCERNAS Research Centre, Polytechnic University of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-0597-7892
Edite Teixeira-LemosCERNAS Research Centre, Polytechnic University of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6346-8319
António RaposoCBIOS (Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5286-2249

Funding

FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. UIDB/00681/2020.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diet behavior and nutrition are critical for maintaining health and improving quality of life. Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Poor dietary choices, such as excessively frequenting restaurants, consuming ready-to-eat foods from grocery stores, and ingesting ultra-processed foods (like frozen meals and pizzas), can adversely impact health. Despite this, research comparing dietary behaviors between smokers and non-smokers is limited. Using data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey 2017-2018, we analyzed diet behavior based on smoking status. Our findings reveal that smokers had a significant increase (90%) in the frequency of consuming frozen meals/pizzas in the past 30 days compared to non-smokers (coefficient: 1.9; 95% CI: 1.4, 2.6;

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Feeding BehaviorNon-SmokersNutrition SurveysSmokersAdolescentAdultAgedDietDiet, HealthyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNutrition PolicySmokingUnited Statesbehaviordietfrozen mealsNHANEStobaccoultra-processed foods

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PMCPMC11243715

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