Prevention & lipidsCohort study
Food Insecurity and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Among Black and White US Individuals, 2000-2020
- Prospective cohort study
Authors' conclusion
In this prospective cohort study among participants in the CARDIA study, food insecurity was associated with incident CVD even after adjustment for socioeconomic factors
Study context
- Population
- US adults without preexisting cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the CARDIA study, 2000 to August 31, 2020mean follow-up 18.8 years
- Participants
- 3,616 adults
- Exposure
- Food insecurity vs food security
- Food insecuren = 529
- Outcome
- CVD events:
- Fatal and nonfatal CHD
- HF
- Stroke
- TIA
- PAD
- Follow-up
- Identified annually through August 31, 2020
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Incident CVD events · mean (SD) follow-up 18.8 (3.4) years
- Food insecurity and incident CVD, aHR (95% CI) adjusted for age, sex and field center
- 1.90 (1.41-2.56)
- Food insecurity and incident CVD, aHR (95% CI) further adjusted for education, marital status and usual source of medical care
- 1.47 (1.08-2.01)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Food Insecurity and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Among Black and White US Individuals, 2000-2020. JAMA Cardiol. Published 1 May 2025. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0109
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it