Neighborhood socioeconomic status and fruit and vegetable intake among whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States

Dubowitz, Tamara; Heron, Melonie; Bird, Chloe E.; Lurie, Nicole; Finch, Brian Karl; Basurto‐Dávila, Ricardo; Hale, Lauren; Escarce, José J.

doi:10.1093/ajcn/87.6.1883

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“…Neighborhood SES shapes the social, service, and physical environments of residents, 16,19,46,47 thereby exposing them to behaviors (e.g., physical activity and diet) [48][49][50][51][52] and essential resources (e.g., education, employment, and community services) [53][54][55] that may be beneficial or detrimental to health. 54 Levels of air pollution also tend to be higher in poor compared to wealthier neighborhoods, 56 and poor neighborhoods lack safe and accessible places to walk and exercise, as well as sources of healthy foods.…”

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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Serum Biomarkers in the Black Women’s Health Study

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Lower neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Black women have a higher CVD risk and are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white women. We examined the association of neighborhood SES with several CVD biomarkers using data from the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS), a follow-up study of US black women reporting high levels of education and income. Blood specimens of 418 BWHS participants were assayed for Creactive protein (CRP), hemoglobin A1C (hgA1C), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. US Census block group data were linked to the women's addresses to reflect neighborhood SES. Multivariable-adjusted mixed linear regression models that adjusted for person-level SES and for cardiovascular risk factors were used to assess CRP, hgA1C, and HDL levels in relation to quintiles of neighborhood SES. Women living in the poorest neighborhoods had the least favorable biomarker levels. As neighborhood SES increased, CRP decreased (P for trend = 0.01), hgA1C decreased (P for trend = 0.07), and HDL increased (P for trend = 0.19). These associations were present within strata of individual educational level. The present findings suggest that neighborhood environments may affect physiological processes within residents independently of individual SES.

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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Serum Biomarkers in the Black Women’s Health Study

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“…Generally, women, married and white people, those with better education and income, physically active, non-smokers, and with moderate alcohol consumption habits tend to consume adequately FV [9][10][11][12] .…”

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The role of emotional states in fruit and vegetable consumption in Brazilian adults

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“…[13][14][15] Persons in these groups tend to live in neighborhoods with poor access to supermarkets and greater-than-average access to convenience stores and small grocery stores. [16][17][18][19][20] One study has shown that neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic status are associated with fruit and vegetable intake independent of individual-level socioeconomic status, suggesting that the foods available in neighborhoods may be contributing to socioeconomic and racial health disparities in the USA.…”

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“…[16][17][18][19][20] One study has shown that neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic status are associated with fruit and vegetable intake independent of individual-level socioeconomic status, suggesting that the foods available in neighborhoods may be contributing to socioeconomic and racial health disparities in the USA. 13 If the "food environment" does have an important influence on purchases and consumption, one possible approach to promoting healthy diets in disadvantaged groups would be to provide incentives to stores that sell a healthier mix of foods to locate in or near the neighborhoods in which they live. For such an approach to be effective, incentives must be tied to criteria that the stores meet for the availability and accessibility of both healthy and unhealthy foods, such as minimum shelf lengths for healthy items and maximum shelf lengths for unhealthy items.…”

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Measuring the Food Environment: Shelf Space of Fruits, Vegetables, and Snack Foods in Stores

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Dietary patterns may be influenced by the availability and accessibility within stores of different types of foods. However, little is known about the amount of shelf space used for healthy and unhealthy foods in different types of stores. We conducted measurements of the length of shelf space used for fruits, vegetables, and snack foods items in 419 stores in 217 urban census tracts in southern Louisiana and in Los Angeles County. Although supermarkets offered far more shelf space of fruits and vegetables than did other types of stores, they also devoted more shelf space to unhealthy snacks (mean 205 m for all of these items combined) than to fruits and vegetables (mean 117 m, pG0.001). After supermarkets, drug stores devoted the most shelf space to unhealthy items. The ratio of the total shelf space for fruits and vegetables to the total shelf space for these unhealthy snack items was the lowest (0.10 or below) and very similar in convenience stores, drug stores, and liquor stores, was in a middle range (0.18 to 0.30) in small food stores, and was highest in medium-sized food stores (0.40 to 0.61) and supermarkets (0.55 to 0.72). Simple measurements of shelf space can be used by researchers to characterize the healthfulness of the food environment and by policymakers to establish criteria for favorable policy treatment of stores.

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Neighborhood socioeconomic status and fruit and vegetable intake among whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States

Abstract: The positive association of neighborhood SES with fruit and vegetable intake is one important pathway through which the social environment of neighborhoods affects population health and nutrition for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States.

Cited by 349 publications

References 47 publications

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Serum Biomarkers in the Black Women’s Health Study

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Serum Biomarkers in the Black Women’s Health Study

The role of emotional states in fruit and vegetable consumption in Brazilian adults

Measuring the Food Environment: Shelf Space of Fruits, Vegetables, and Snack Foods in Stores

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