Diabetes and Obesity Associated with Poor Food Environments in American Indian Communities: the Tribal Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) Study.

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Abstract

American Indians (AIs) have significantly higher rates of diet-related chronic diseases than other racial/ethnic groups, and many live in environments with limited access to healthy food.

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Food store types, availability, and cost of foods in a rural environment.

Andrew Lawson, Brenda K. Weis, Delores Pluto … (2007)

To characterize the built nutritional environment in terms of types and number of food stores, availability, and cost of selected food items in a rural area. A cross-sectional survey of food stores conducted in 2004. We selected a rural county (population 91,582; 1,106 square miles). Food stores identified from a database were mapped and presence, location, and store type verified by ground-truthing. Stores were surveyed for availability and cost of selected foods. Price and availability of a limited number of staple foods representing the main food groups. Availability comparisons used least square means models and price comparisons used t tests. Of 77 stores identified, 16% were supermarkets, 10% grocery stores, and 74% convenience stores. There were seven stores per 100 square miles and eight stores per 10,000 residents. Availability of more healthful foods was substantially higher at supermarkets and grocery stores. For instance, low-fat/nonfat milk, apples, high-fiber bread, eggs, and smoked turkey were available in 75% to 100% of supermarkets and groceries and at 4% to 29% of convenience stores. Foods that were available at both supermarkets and convenience stores tended to be substantially more expensive at convenience stores. The healthful version of a food was typically more expensive than the less healthful version. In this rural environment, stores offering more healthful and lower-cost food selections were outnumbered by convenience stores offering lower availability of more healthful foods. Our findings underscore the challenges of shopping for healthful and inexpensive foods in rural areas.

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Validity of diabetes self-reports in the Women's Health Initiative: comparison with medication inventories and fasting glucose measurements.

Lesley Tinker, Camenzind G Robinson, Lihong Qi … (2007)

Although diabetes is conveniently assessed by self-report, few validation studies have been performed. Therefore, we studied whether self-report of prevalent and incident diabetes in Women's Health Initiative (WHI) participants was concordant with other diagnostic evidence of diabetes. A total of 161 808 postmenopausal women aged 50-79 were enrolled at 40 clinical centers in the U.S. in 1993-1998 and followed prospectively. At baseline, prevalent medication treated diabetes was defined as a self-report of physician diagnosis and treatment with insulin or oral antidiabetic drugs. During followup, incident treated diabetes was defined as a self-report of a new physician diagnosis of diabetes treated with insulin or oral drugs. Diabetes self-reports were compared with medication inventories and fasting glucose levels at baseline and during follow-up. At baseline, self-reported treated diabetes was concordant with the medication inventory in 79% of clinical trial, and 77% of observational study participants. Self-reported incident treated diabetes was concordant with the medication inventory in 78% between baseline and Year 1 in the clinical trials, in 62% between Year 1 and Year 3 in the clinical trials, and in 72% between baseline and Year 3 in the observational study. Over similar periods, 99.9% of those who did not report treated diabetes had no oral antidiabetic drugs or insulin in the medication inventory. At baseline, about 3% not reporting diabetes had fasting glucose >126 mg/dl, and 88% of these subjects subsequently reported treated diabetes during 6.9 years of follow-up. Incident self-reported diabetes treated by lifestyle alone was not determined in WHI. Medication inventories may have been incomplete and fasting glucose may have been lowered by treatment; therefore, concordance with self-reported treatment or fasting glucose > or = 126 may have been underestimated. In the WHI, self-reported prevalent and incident diabetes was consistent with medication inventories, and a high proportion of those with undiagnosed diabetes subsequently reported diabetes treatment. Self-reports of ;treated diabetes' are sufficiently accurate to allow use in epidemiologic studies.