TY - JOUR
T1 - You are what you think your social network eats
T2 - Public housing, social networks, and fast-food consumption
AU - Meza, Benjamin Paulo Leme
AU - Pollack, Craig Evan
AU - Levine, David M.
AU - Latkin, Carl A.
AU - Clark, Jeanne M.
AU - Gudzune, Kimberly A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K23HL116601. Benjamin Meza was supported by a training grant through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 5T32 HL007180-43. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The study was also supported by small grants from the Johns Hopkins Osler Center for Clinical Excellence and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. We would like to acknowledge technical support for the statistical analysis from the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health through Grant Number 1UL1TR001079.
Publisher Copyright:
© Meharry Medical College.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - High-sodium diets (e.g., fast-food intake, FF) may contribute to increased hypertension risk among low-income populations. We examined the association between FF intake and perceived social-network member FF intake among Baltimore public housing residents. We analyzed 2014–2015 cross-sectional data. Our dependent variable was FF intake (eating FF weekly versus not), and our independent variable was perceiving one or more network member eating FF weekly. We used multivariable Poisson regression with robust variance, adjusted for individual and network covariates. The 266 public housing residents had mean age 44.5 years: 86.1% women, 95.5% African American, 56.8% hypertension, and 42.8% who ate FF weekly. Residents were significantly more likely to eat FF weekly if they perceived that their network contained one or more members who consumed FF weekly (relative risk 1.50, 95%CI 1.05–2.14, p=.02). Given the association between personal and social network consumption of FF weekly, further investigation may be warranted of novel social network interventions for dietary behavior change.
AB - High-sodium diets (e.g., fast-food intake, FF) may contribute to increased hypertension risk among low-income populations. We examined the association between FF intake and perceived social-network member FF intake among Baltimore public housing residents. We analyzed 2014–2015 cross-sectional data. Our dependent variable was FF intake (eating FF weekly versus not), and our independent variable was perceiving one or more network member eating FF weekly. We used multivariable Poisson regression with robust variance, adjusted for individual and network covariates. The 266 public housing residents had mean age 44.5 years: 86.1% women, 95.5% African American, 56.8% hypertension, and 42.8% who ate FF weekly. Residents were significantly more likely to eat FF weekly if they perceived that their network contained one or more members who consumed FF weekly (relative risk 1.50, 95%CI 1.05–2.14, p=.02). Given the association between personal and social network consumption of FF weekly, further investigation may be warranted of novel social network interventions for dietary behavior change.
KW - African American
KW - Dietary sodium
KW - Fast foods
KW - Health risk behaviors
KW - Minority health
KW - Public housing
KW - Social networking
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U2 - 10.1353/hpu.2020.0128
DO - 10.1353/hpu.2020.0128
M3 - Article
C2 - 33416748
AN - SCOPUS:85096762544
VL - 31
SP - 1712
EP - 1726
JO - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
JF - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
SN - 1049-2089
IS - 4
ER -