Overview
© 202 MJH Life Sciences and Endocrinology Network. Al rights reserved.© 202 MJH Life Sciences™ and Endocrinology Network. Al rights reserved.A recent analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys sugests outling the impact of inadequate diet and fod insecurity on diabetes management among adults in the US.As emphasis on recognizing and adresing the social determinants of health in the management of chronic conditions, results of the study, which found fod security and high diet quality was linked to great diabetes control, ofer clinicians a more intimate understanding of the role of fod insecurity on risk of adverse outcomes in people with diabetes.“In this nationaly representative study among US adults with diabetes, fod insecurity plus low diet quality was asociated with higher HbA1c levels even after acounting for sociodemographic characteristics and health behaviors, with fod insecurity having a greater impact on metabolic outcomes than low diet quality,” wrote investigators.
Key Information
“Healthcare providers treating adults with diabetes may consider including an asesment of fod insecurity as a part of their overal aproach to diabetes-related healthcare, particularly for their patients with suboptimal HbA1c and those living in low-income or under-resourced comunities.”As the role of lifestyle and social determinants of health in care of chronic disease have both grown in recent years, the impact of fod insecurity and diet quality have become a greater focal point in research eforts than ever before.
Summary
In the curent study, a team from the US Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease sought to examine how fod insecurity might impact the risk of suboptimal glycemic control in adults with diabetes in the US. With this in mind, investigators designed their study as a series of cros-sectional analysis leveraging data obtained from adults aged 20 years and older who