318
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Food Insecurity and Lipid Profile Abnormalities Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): A Case–Control Study

, , ORCID Icon &

References

  • Amirkalali, B., H. Poustchi, H. Keyvani, M. R. Khansari, H. Ajdarkosh, M. Maadi, F. Zamani, and F. Zamani. 2014. Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its predictors in North of Iran. Iranian Journal of Public Health 43 (9):1275–83.
  • Beck, A. T., C. H. Ward, M. Mendelson, J. Mock, and J. Erbaugh. 1961. An inventory for measuring depression. Archives of General Psychiatry 4:561–71. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1961.01710120031004.
  • Behzadifar, M., M. Behzadifar, S. Abdi, R. Malekzadeh, M. Arab Salmani, G. Ghoreishinia, K. Sayehmiri, M. Mirzaei, N. Shams Biranvand, and K. Sayehmiri. 2016. Prevalence of food insecurity in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Iranian Medicine 19 (4):288–94. doi:10.10161904/aim.0012.
  • Brown, J. D., E. Karimian Azari, and J. E. Ayala. 2017. Oleoylethanolamide: A fat ally in the fight against obesity. Physiology & Behavior 176:50–58. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.02.034.
  • Chatrath, H., R. Vuppalanchi, and N. Chalasani. 2012. Dyslipidemia in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Seminars in Liver Disease 32 (1):22–29. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1306423.
  • Cook, J. T., and D. A. Frank. 2008. Food security, poverty, and human development in the United States. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1136 (1):193–209. doi:10.1196/annals.1425.001.
  • Dastgiri, S., A. R. Ostadrahimi, H. Tutunchi, and S. A. Mahboob. 2006. Validity of a short questionnaire (Six-Items) for food insecurity surveillance in Iran. American Journal of Epidemiology 163 (suppl_11):S47. doi:10.1093/aje/163.suppl_11.S47-a.
  • Dastgiri, S., H. Tutunchi, A. Ostadrahimi, and S. Mahboob. 2007. Sensitivity and specificity of a short questionnaire for food insecurity surveillance in Iran. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 28 (1):55–58. doi:10.1177/156482650702800106.
  • Elwing, J. E., P. J. Lustman, H. L. Wang, and R. E. Clouse. 2006. Depression, anxiety, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Psychosomatic Medicine 68 (4):563–69. doi:10.1097/01.psy.0000221276.17823.df.
  • Fan, J. G., S. U. Kim, and V. W. Wong. 2017. New trends on obesity and NAFLD in Asia. Journal of Hepatology 67 (4):862–73. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2017.06.003.
  • Fan, N., L. Peng, Z. Xia, L. Zhang, Z. Song, Y. Wang, and Y. Peng. 2019. Triglycerides to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio as a surrogate for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A cross-sectional study. Lipids in Health and Disease 18 (1):39–39. doi:10.1186/s12944-019-0986-7.
  • Fan, R., J. Wang, and J. Du. 2018. Association between body mass index and fatty liver risk: A dose-response analysis. Scientific Reports 8 (1):15273. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-33419-6.
  • Finney Rutten, L. J., A. L. Yaroch, U. Colón-Ramos, W. Johnson-Askew, and M. Story. 2010. Poverty, food insecurity, and obesity: A conceptual framework for research, practice, and policy. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 5 (4):403–15. doi:10.1080/19320248.2010.527275.
  • Fung, J., C. K. Lee, M. Chan, W. K. Seto, C. L. Lai, and M. F. Yuen. 2015. High prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the Chinese - results from the Hong Kong liver health census. Liver International 35 (2):542–49. doi:10.1111/liv.12619.
  • Golovaty, I., P. C. Tien, J. C. Price, L. Sheira, H. Seligman, and S. D. Weiser. 2019. Food insecurity may be an independent risk factor associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among low-income adults in the United States. The Journal of Nutrition. doi:10.1093/jn/nxz212.
  • Gulliford, M. C., D. Mahabir, and B. Rocke. 2003. Food insecurity, food choices, and body mass index in adults: Nutrition transition in Trinidad and Tobago. International Journal of Epidemiology 32 (4):508–16. doi:10.1093/ije/dyg100.
  • Ho-Pham, L. T., L. V. Campbell, and T. V. Nguyen. 2011. More on body fat cutoff points. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 86 (6):584–85. doi:10.4065/mcp.2011.0097.
  • Hoseinikhorrami, S., S. Dastgiri, F. Bakhtari, and H. Tutunchi. 2007. Epidemiology of food insecurity in the north west of Iran. Research Journal of Biological Sciences 2 (4):472–75.
  • Hossein Kaviani, H., and A. S. Mousavi. 2008. Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Tehran-Univ-Med-J 66 (2):136–40.
  • Isanaka, S., M. Mora-Plazas, S. Lopez-Arana, A. Baylin, and E. Villamor. 2007. Food insecurity is highly prevalent and predicts underweight but not overweight in adults and school children from Bogota, Colombia. The Journal of Nutrition 137 (12):2747–55. doi:10.1093/jn/137.12.2747.
  • Kendall, A., C. M. Olson, and E. A. Frongillo Jr. 1996. Relationship of hunger and food insecurity to food availability and consumption. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 96 (10):1025–1016. doi:10.1016/s0002-8223(96)00271-4.
  • Khosravi, M., G. Sotoudeh, R. Majdzadeh, S. Nejati, S. Darabi, F. Raisi, A. Esmaillzadeh, and M. Sorayani. 2015. Healthy and unhealthy dietary patterns are related to depression: A case-control study. Psychiatry Investigation 12 (4):434–42. doi:10.4306/pi.2015.12.4.434.
  • Kramer, J. R., L. A. Fischbach, P. Richardson, A. Alsarraj, S. Fitzgerald, Y. Shaib, H. B. El-Serag, M. Velez, R. Cole, and B. Anand. 2013. Waist-to-hip ratio, but not body mass index, is associated with an increased risk of Barrett’s esophagus in white men. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 11 (4):373–381.e371. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2012.11.028.
  • Le Strat, Y., B. Le Foll, and C. Dubertret. 2015. Major depression and suicide attempts in patients with liver disease in the United States. Liver International 35 (7):1910–16. doi:10.1111/liv.12612.
  • Leung, C. W., E. S. Epel, W. C. Willett, E. B. Rimm, and B. A. Laraia. 2015. Household food insecurity is positively associated with depression among low-income supplemental nutrition assistance program participants and income-eligible nonparticipants. The Journal of Nutrition 145 (3):622–27. doi:10.3945/jn.114.199414.
  • Loomis, A. K., S. Kabadi, D. Preiss, C. Hyde, V. Bonato, M. St Louis, J. Desai, J. M. R. Gill, P. Welsh, and D. Waterworth. 2016. Body mass index and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Two electronic health record prospective studies. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 101 (3):945–52. doi:10.1210/jc.2015-3444.
  • Mahaling, D. U., M. M. Basavaraj, and A. J. Bika. 2013. Comparison of lipid profile in different grades of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease diagnosed on ultrasound. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 3 (11):907–12. doi:10.1016/S2221-1691(13)60177-X.
  • Mansour-Ghanaei, R., F. Mansour-Ghanaei, M. Naghipour, F. Joukar, Z. Atrkar-Roushan, M. Tabatabaii, and N. Ghorani. 2018. The role of anthropometric indices in the prediction of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the PERSIAN Guilan Cohort study (PGCS). Journal of Medicine and Life 11 (3):194–202. doi:10.25122/jml-2018-0031.
  • Mello, J. A., K. M. Gans, P. M. Risica, U. Kirtania, L. O. Strolla, and L. Fournier. 2010. How is food insecurity associated with dietary behaviors? An analysis with low-income, ethnically diverse participants in a nutrition intervention study. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 110 (12):1906–11. doi:10.1016/j.jada.2010.09.011.
  • Miyake, T., T. Kumagi, M. Hirooka, S. Furukawa, M. Koizumi, Y. Tokumoto, T. Ueda, S. Yamamoto, M. Abe, and K. Kitai. 2013. Body mass index is the most useful predictive factor for the onset of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A community-based retrospective longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Gastroenterology 48 (3):413–22. doi:10.1007/s00535-012-0650-8.
  • Mohammadzadeh, A., A. Dorosty, and M. Eshraghian. 2010. Household food security status and associated factors among high-school students in Esfahan, Iran. Public Health Nutrition 13 (10):1609–13. doi:10.1017/s1368980010000467.
  • Najibi, N., R. Firoozi, S. Shahrezaee, M. Eshraghian, M. Daneshi-Maskooni, and A. Dorosty-Motlagh. 2019. Food insecurity is an important risk factor for type 2 diabetes: A case-control study of new referrals to the University clinics, Shiraz, Southern Iran. BMC Public Health 19 (1):885. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7236-9.
  • Nikniaz, L., J. S. Tabrizi, H. Sadeghi-Bazargani, M. Farahbakhsh, and Z. Nikniaz. 2017. Food insecurity increases the odds of obesity among Iranian women: A population-based study of northwestern Iran. Nutrition & Dietetics 74 (5):454–59. doi:10.1111/1747-0080.12356.
  • Ostadrahimi, A., S. A. Mahboob, Totonchi, S. Dastgiri, and L. Dadgar. 2006. Prevalence and intensity of food insecurity (hunger and hidden hunger aspects) in AsadAbadi region of Tabriz. Scientific Magazine Yafte 8 (1):75–81.
  • Pacifico, L., E. Bonci, G. Andreoli, S. Romaggioli, R. Di Miscio, C. V. Lombardo, and C. Chiesa. 2014. Association of serum triglyceride-to-HDL cholesterol ratio with carotid artery intima-media thickness, insulin resistance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children and adolescents. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 24 (7):737–43. doi:10.1016/j.numecd.2014.01.010.
  • Park, S.-J., M.-S. Kim, and H.-J. Lee. 2019. The association between dietary pattern and depression in middle-aged Korean adults. Nutrition Research and Practice 13 (4):316–22. doi:10.4162/nrp.2019.13.4.316.
  • Rafiei, M., M. Nord, A. Sadeghizadeh, and M. H. Entezari. 2009. Assessing the internal validity of a household survey-based food security measure adapted for use in Iran. Nutrition Journal 8 (1):28. doi:10.1186/1475-2891-8-28.
  • Rezazadeh, A., N. Omidvar, H. Eini-Zinab, M. Ghazi-Tabatabaie, R. Majdzadeh, S. Ghavamzadeh, and S. Nouri-saeidlou. 2016. Food insecurity, socio-economic factors and weight status in two Iranian ethnic groups. Ethnicity & Health 21 (3):233–50. doi:10.1080/13557858.2015.1061102.
  • Seligman, H. K., B. A. Laraia, and M. B. Kushel. 2010. Food insecurity is associated with chronic disease among low-income NHANES participants. The Journal of Nutrition 140 (2):304–10. doi:10.3945/jn.109.112573.
  • Tayie, F. A., and C. A. Zizza. 2009. Food insecurity and dyslipidemia among adults in the United States. Preventive Medicine 48 (5):480–85. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.03.003.
  • Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) final report. 2002. Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) Final Report. Circulation 106(25):3143–421. doi:10.1161/circ.106.25.3143.
  • Tomizawa, M., Y. Kawanabe, F. Shinozaki, S. Sato, Y. Motoyoshi, T. Sugiyama, S. YAMAMOTO, and M. SUEISHI. 2014. Triglyceride is strongly associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among markers of hyperlipidemia and diabetes. Biomedical Reports 2 (5):633–36. doi:10.3892/br.2014.309.
  • Tutunchi, H., M. Asghari Jafarabadi, S. Hoojeghani, S. Tabrizi, N. Farrin, L. Payahoo, and A. Ostadrahimi. 2019a. General and abdominal obesity is related to socioeconomic status and food choices: A cross-sectional study. Nutrition & Food Science 50 (1):61–73. doi:10.1108/NFS-02-2019-0056.
  • Tutunchi, H., M. Ebrahimi-Mameghani, A. Ostadrahimi, and M. Asghari-Jafarabadi. 2020a. What are the optimal cut-off points of anthropometric indices for prediction of overweight and obesity? Predictive validity of waist circumference, waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratios. Health Promotion Perspectives 10 (2):142–47. doi:10.34172/hpp.2020.23.
  • Tutunchi, H., A. Ostadrahimi, M. Saghafi-Asl, and V. Maleki. 2019b. The effects of oleoylethanolamide, an endogenous PPAR-alpha agonist, on risk factors for NAFLD: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews 20 (7):1057–69. doi:10.1111/obr.12853.
  • Tutunchi, H., M. Saghafi-Asl, M. Asghari-Jafarabadi, and A. Ostadrahimi. 2020b. The relationship between severity of liver steatosis and metabolic parameters in a sample of Iranian adults. BMC Research Notes 13 (1):218. doi:10.1186/s13104-020-05059-5.
  • Vozoris, N. T., and V. S. Tarasuk. 2003. Household food insufficiency is associated with poorer health. The Journal of Nutrition 133 (1):120–26. doi:10.1093/jn/133.1.120.
  • Yang, T. C., P. Sahota, K. E. Pickett, and M. Bryant. 2018. Association of food security status with overweight and dietary intake: Exploration of White British and Pakistani-origin families in the Born in Bradford cohort. Nutrition Journal 17 (1):48. doi:10.1186/s12937-018-0349-7.
  • Yasutake, K., M. Kohjima, K. Kotoh, M. Nakashima, M. Nakamuta, and M. Enjoji. 2014. Dietary habits and behaviors associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. World Journal of Gastroenterology 20 (7):1756–67. doi:10.3748/wjg.v20.i7.1756.
  • Youssef, N. A., M. F. Abdelmalek, M. Binks, C. D. Guy, A. Omenetti, A. D. Smith, A. Diehl, and A. Suzuki. 2013. Associations of depression, anxiety and antidepressants with histological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Liver International 33 (7):1062–70. doi:10.1111/liv.12165.
  • Zheng, R. D., Z. R. Chen, J. N. Chen, Y. H. Lu, and J. Chen. 2012. Role of body mass index, waist-to-height and waist-to-hip ratio in prediction of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology Research and Practice 2012:362147. doi:10.1155/2012/362147.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.