Status:

COMPLETED

The Association Between Food Insecurity and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Canada: A Population-based Cohort Study

Lead Sponsor:

Christopher Tait

Collaborating Sponsors:

Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Conditions:

Type2 Diabetes

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

A pervasive and persistent finding is the health disadvantage experienced by those in food insecure households. While clear associations have been identified between food insecurity and diabetes risk ...

Detailed Description

Globally, there are over 200 million people living with type 2 diabetes. Aging populations, steadily increasing obesity rates, increases in sedentary behaviours, and decreases in diabetes-related mort...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • The investigators restricted the analyses to individuals ≥ 18 years of age at baseline who were successfully linked to the Ontario Diabetes Database (n = 5,539). The investigators further excluded pregnant women from the sample to increase the accuracy of body weight measurements (n = 36), prevalent cases of diabetes before respondents' 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey interview date (n = 636), underweight individuals (n = 112), and those who had missing information on food security status (n = 16). After these exclusions, the analytic cohort consists of 4,739 individuals, 2,050 men and 2,689 women.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    January 1 2004

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    March 31 2016

    Estimated Enrollment :

    4739 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT03243136

    Start Date

    January 1 2004

    End Date

    March 31 2016

    Last Update

    August 8 2017

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