DIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT FOR NICOLE REEDER - JACKSON HEART STUDY (JHS) TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTER (TEC) - TASK AREA C

在美国，粮食不安全是一个主要的公共卫生问题。粮食不安全的成年人面临许多挑战，这些挑战增加了死亡和慢性病的风险。 然而，人们对这一系列慢性病和粮食不安全知之甚少。代谢综合征是以高血压、血脂异常、胰岛素抵抗和腹型肥胖为标志的一系列因素，影响着超过三分之一的美国人，并增加了心血管疾病和II型糖尿病的风险。患新陈代谢综合征的风险受到生活方式因素的显著影响，如习惯遵循健康的饮食模式，在食物不安全的状态下，这一点可能会改变。这项拟议的研究试图检查粮食不安全和代谢综合征之间的关系，代谢综合征是粮食不安全造成的健康后果中较少研究的一个。使用2005-2016年国家健康和营养检查调查(NHANES)的数据，这项多样性补充调查的拟议目标是：1)发展研究技能，使用具有全国代表性的NHANES数据集进行二次数据分析；2)检查美国成年人中食物不安全和代谢综合征之间的关联。这些目标的实现将提高博士后职位所需的研究技能--生物统计学和手稿开发，并推动关于粮食不安全和健康的科学文献。

Food insecurity is a major public health concern in the United States. Adults with food insecurity face numerous challenges that contribute to having an increased risk of mortality and chronic disease. Little is known, however, about the cluster of chronic diseases and food insecurity. Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of factors marked by hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and abdominal obesity, effects over one third of Americans and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes. The risk of developing metabolic syndrome is significantly affected by lifestyle factors such as habitually following a healthy dietary pattern, which may be altered in the state of food insecurity. This proposed study seeks to examine the associations between food insecurity and metabolic syndrome, one less studied health outcome of food insecurity. Using data from the 2005-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), the proposed aims of this diversity supplement are to: 1) develop research skills to conduct secondary data analyses using NHANES, a nationally representative data set; and 2) examine the association between food insecurity and metabolic syndrome among US adults. The achievement of these aims will enhance research skills—biostatistics and manuscript development—necessary for a postdoctoral position and advance the scientific literature on food insecurity and health.