geoffrey modest medical blogs

  the CDC just published a report on food insecurity in children aged 0-17 in the US, covering the period 2019-2020, finding about 15 million American kid s fit in this category!!! (see  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db432.pdf  )   Details : --food insecurity is defined as limited or uncertain availability of safe and nutritionally adequate foods, or the limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways ; it is determined by the answer to 10 questions, mostly about both accessible food quantity and quality -- the data are based on the prior 30 days using the 2019-2020 National Interview Survey data, with stratified information based on age, sex, race/ethnicity and other demographics   Results : -- overall the percentage of children aged 0-17 who lived in households that experienced food insecurity was 10.8%, and did not vary by sex of the children or age (categorized as 0-5yo, 6-11yo and 12-17yo) ...

        A recent study found a significant relationship between negative net worth (ie, debt) and higher blood pressure in African-American women, controlling for some of the other measures of social economic status including educational level and family income (see  htn networth assoc BP in AfAm women jama2022 in dropbox or doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0331)   Details: --384 African-American women were enrolled in the Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of Stress and Emotions on African American Women's Health cohort who participated in the study, from 2016 to 2019 --all were aged 30 to 45 at screening, were premenopausal, and were not pregnant/lactating  --exclusion criteria included a history of clinical cardiovascular disease, illnesses that might influence CVD risk (eg, autoimmune disease, HIV, kidney disease), psychiatric disorder treatment, illicit drug use, or shift-working (owing to alterations in circadian rhythm) --50% of the particip...