Food Insecurity

Access — or lack thereof — to nutritious food directly impacts Americans’ health, and more must be done to address food and nutrition insecurity, according to a position paper from the ACP.

ATLANTA — Energy intake and diet quality do not mediate the association between food insecurity and increased BMI in U.S. adults, according to data presented at ENDO 2022.

SAN DIEGO — Living within a food desert is an important risk factor for decreased breastfeeding initiation, according to findings presented at the ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting.

CHICAGO ⁠— In this video, Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board Member Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, discusses her presentations on obesity from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

BOSTON — The Northwestern Medicine African American Transplant Access Program has promoted and increased opportunities to transplantation in Black communities in Chicago, according to a speaker here.

A report published by CVS Health showed that autoimmune treatments accounted for more than half of all specialty drug growth in 2021. It was the top story in rheumatology last week.

Social determinants of health, including food insecurity, are prevalent among adults with self-reported rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study published in BMC Rheumatology.

Food insecurity was associated with higher allostatic load among adults in the U.S. aged 50 years or older, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Among patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and advanced fibrosis, food insecurity significantly correlated with greater all-cause mortality, according to a presenter at the International Liver Congress.

Black adults who eat ultra-processed foods are at elevated risk for hypertension, according to data presented at the American Heart Association’s virtual Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions.