Food Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescents

Food Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescents

INTRODUCTION Food insecurity is associated with poor cardiometabolic health in adults. The extent to which this relationship exists in adolescents has yet to be defined. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between food insecurity and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescents. METHODS We evaluated the association between food insecurity and several cardiometabolic ris...

Food Insecurity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in U.S. Adolescents

Latent Class Analysis of the cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-V study

Background: Cardio-metabolic syndrome indicates the clustering of several risk factors. The aims of this study were to identify the subgroups of the Iranian children and adolescents on the basis of the components of the cardio-metabolic syndrome and assess the role of demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status and life style related behaviors on the membership of participants in each lat...

Food Insecurity among Elderly in Tehran: Prevalence, Risk and Protective Factors

 Background and purpose: Food insecurity is a major public health problem, especially among older adults living in developing countries. The present study aimed at examining the prevalence, and risk and protective factors for severe food insecurity among elderly in Tehran, Iran. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, 384 elderly people aged 60 years and older were selected from ...

Vitamin D intake and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescents.

BACKGROUND A growing body of research suggests that vitamin D might play an important role in overall health. No data exist on vitamin D intake for the Azorean adolescent population. The purpose of this study was to assess vitamin D intake and investigate a possible association between vitamin D intake and cardiometabolic risk factors in Azorean adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional school-b...