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The Association Between Food Insecurity and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Canada: A Population-based Cohort Study

NCT03243136 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 4739

Last updated 2017-08-08

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Summary

A pervasive and persistent finding is the health disadvantage experienced by those in food insecure households. While clear associations have been identified between food insecurity and diabetes risk factors, less is known about the relationship between food insecurity and incident type 2 diabetes.

The objective of this study is to investigate the association between household food insecurity and the future development of type 2 diabetes.

The investigators used data from Ontario adult respondents to the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey, linked to health administrative data (n = 4,739). Food insecurity was assessed with the Household Food Security Survey Module and incident type 2 diabetes cases were identified by the Ontario Diabetes Database. Multivariable adjusted Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for type 2 diabetes as a function of food insecurity.

Conditions

  • Type2 Diabetes

Interventions

OTHER

Exposure of interest is food insecurity

Households were considered food insecure if any of the following conditions were met in the past 12 months: 1) a member of the household worried that there would not be enough food to eat because of a lack of money, 2) a member's food intake was reduced as a result of there not being enough food to eat, or 3) the desired variety or quality of foods was not eaten because of a lack of money. This exposure variable was operationalized as a binary variable with levels of food secure vs. food insecure.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Christopher Tait

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher Tait, PhD(c) · University of Toronto - Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-01-01
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

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