Food Insecurity Tied to Incident Cardiovascular Disease Events
By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, March 21, 2025 -- Food insecurity is associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, even when adjusting for sociodemographic factors, according to a study published online March 12 in JAMA Cardiology.
Jenny Jia, M.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues examined whether food insecurity is associated with incident CVD across sociodemographic factors. The analysis included 3,616 participants in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study (January 2000 to Aug. 31, 2020).
The researchers found that individuals with food insecurity were more likely to self-identify as Black and report lower educational attainment. During a mean follow-up of 18.8 years, 57 CVD events occurred in food-insecure participants (11 percent) and 198 events occurred in food-secure participants (6 percent). Food insecurity was associated with incident CVD (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.90), when adjusting for age, sex, and field center, and the association persisted after further adjusting for the socioeconomic factors of education, marital status, and usual source of medical care (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.47).
"Food insecurity may be an important social deprivation measure in clinical assessment of CVD risk," the authors write. "Whether interventions to reduce food insecurity programs can potentially alleviate CVD should be further studied."
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Posted March 2025
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