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The association of household food insecurity with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Background

The link between household food insecurity and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus still remains controversial. Therefore, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to clarify the association between household food insecurity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Methods

EMBASE, PubMed, ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases were searched up to March 2017. The selection of studies, data extraction and assessing the risk of bias in the included studies were carried out by two reviewers independently. Study-specific odds ratios (ORs) were pooled using a random effects model.

Results

A total of 18 articles including a total of 55,353,915 adult participants were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled ORs of the cross-sectional studies revealed that household food insecurity was significantly associated with the odds of T2DM (OR 1.27, 95% CI 1.11–1.42) with no evidence of publication bias (p = 0.63) but heterogeneity between studies (I2 = 61.1%). Similarly, subgroup analyses showed that the country where the study conducted and household food insecurity assessment tool used to influence the effect of household food insecurity on the odds of T2DM. However, the pooled ORs for two case–control and one cohort studies were not significantly associated between household food insecurity and T2DM in adults.

Conclusion

This study strengthens the hypothesis of the household food insecurity effect on the odds of T2DM among adults. Further longitudinal studies based on larger, and more representative samples are needed to identify the underlying relationships between food insecurity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to all staffs of Tehran University of Medical Sciences International Campus (TUMS-IC), School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics and School of public health who assisted in this review.

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  1. Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences International Campus (TUMS-IC), Tehran, Iran

    Ahmed A. Abdurahman

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences International Campus (TUMS-IC), Tehran, Iran

    Eshetu E. Chaka

  3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    S. Nedjat & R. Majdzadeh

  4. Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), P.O. Box: 14155-6117, Tehran, Iran

    Ahmed Reza Dorosty

  5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and Community Based Participatory Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    R. Majdzadeh

  6. College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia

    Eshetu E. Chaka

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AAA and EEC conceived the study aims and design, contributed to the systematic review and data extraction, performed the analysis, interpreted the results, and drafted the manuscript. RM, SN, and ARD contributed to the interpretation of results and revision of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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The protocol number of the study is PROSPERO 2017: CRD42017058627.

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Abdurahman, A.A., Chaka, E.E., Nedjat, S. et al. The association of household food insecurity with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Nutr 58, 1341–1350 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1705-2

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