Authors
Ahmed A Abdurahman, Eshetu E Chaka, S Nedjat, Ahmed Reza Dorosty, R Majdzadeh
Publication date
2019/6/1
Source
European journal of nutrition
Volume
58
Pages
1341-1350
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
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 …
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