Does Food Insufficiency Affect Health Status And Health Care Utilization Among Diabetics?
Karin M Nelson, MD1, William Cunningham, MD, MPH1, Ronald Andersen, PhD2, Gail Harrison, PhD3, and Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH4. (1) Division of General Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA, School of Medicine, Box 951736, Los Angeles, CA 90095, 310-794-9455, kmn@ucla.edu, (2) Department of Health Services, UCLA, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, (3) Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, (4) Department of Family Medicine, UCLA, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 OBJECTIVES: Determine the prevalence of food insufficiency and describe the association of food insufficiency with health status and health care utilization in a national sample of diabetics. METHODS: We analyzed data from diabetics (n=1503) interviewed in NHANES III. Individuals were classified as food insufficient if their family sometimes or often did not get enough to eat or had to cut down on the size of their meals because of financial cons
