Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity and other chronic diseases
are constant features of the US population and warrant continuous research on the
linkage and causation between social demographic factors and distant health outcomes,
and on related interventions. Many believe that the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic
disparity in dietary intake is an important intermediate factor contributing to the
disparities in obesity and other lifestyle-related diseases (
1
). Kirkpatrick and colleagues (
2
) provide some new evidence on differences in food group-based dietary intakes across
race/ethnicity and income groups in terms of meeting the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) dietary recommendations (
3
).Keywords
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Biography
Q. Zhang is an associate professor, School of Community and Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Biography
Y. Wang is an associate professor and director, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Global Center for Childhood Obesity, Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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Publication history
Published online: April 25, 2012
Accepted:
February 1,
2012
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STATEMENT OF POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
FUNDING/SUPPORT This work was support by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (grant no. R01DK81335-01A1).
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