Association of food security status with overweight and dietary intake: exploration of White British and Pakistani-origin families in the Born in Bradford cohort

• Published in: Nutrition journal 2018-04, Vol.17 (1), p.48-48, Article 48
• Main Authors: Yang, T C, Sahota, P, Pickett, K E, Bryant, M
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Analysis; Beverages; Body Mass Index; Body weight; Child, Preschool; Diet; Diet Records; Diet, Healthy; Ethnicity; Ethnicity - statistics & numerical data; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Food security; Food supply; Food Supply - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Infant; Longitudinal Studies; Mothers; Obesity; Overweight - epidemiology; Pakistan - ethnology; Postpartum Period; Risk factors; Sugars - administration & dosage; Surveys and Questionnaires; United Kingdom - epidemiology; Vegetables; White People
• ISSN: 1475-2891; 1475-2891
• DOI: 10.1186/s12937-018-0349-7

Food insecurity has been associated with dietary intake and weight status in UK adults and children although results have been mixed and ethnicity has not been explored. We aimed to compare prevalence and trajectories of weight and dietary intakes among food secure and insecure White British and Pakistani-origin families. At 12 months postpartum, mothers in the Born in Bradford cohort completed a questionnaire on food security status and a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) assessing their child's intake in the previous month; at 18 months postpartum, mothers completed a short-form FFQ assessing dietary intake in the previous 12 months. Weights and heights of mothers and infants were assessed at 12-, 24-, and 36-months postpartum, with an additional measurement of children taken at 4-5 years. Associations between food security status and dietary intakes were assessed using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney for continuous variables and χ or Fisher's exact tests for categorical variables. Quantile and logistic regression were used to determine dietary intakes adjusting for mother's age. Linear mixed effects models were used to assess longitudinal changes in body mass index (BMI) in mothers and BMI z-scores in children. At 12 months postpartum, White British mothers reported more food insecurity than Pakistani-origin mothers (11% vs 7%; p