ArticleJournal of research in health sciences2025
Food Insecurity Is an Important Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease: A Case-Control Study.
Article in Journal of research in health sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThere is a gap in the literature specifically addressing the relationship between food insecurity and the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
methodsThis study aimed to evaluate the association between food insecurity and the risk of AD in 301 participants, including 150 cases and 151 controls. Cases were recruited among people in the early stages of the disease who had been diagnosed with AD within the past six months. Controls were selected from health centers across Tehran. Food security status was assessed using the validated Persian translation of the 18-item United States Department of Agriculture's household food security questionnaire.
resultsAfter adjusting for potential cofounders, food insecurity was associated with a higher risk of AD (odds ratio [OR]: 2.80; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.59-4.94). Among female participants, food insecurity increased the odds of AD (OR: 3.54; 95% CI: 1.72-7.30). For individuals under 65, food insecurity also increased the likelihood of AD nearly four-fold (OR: 3.94, 95% CI: 1.48-10.47), while for those over 65, the risk was only 2.89 times (OR: 2.89, 95% CI: 1.36-6.14).
conclusionFood insecurity might be associated with an increased risk of AD. Further research is required to explore the relationship between food insecurity and other types of neurological disorders or health conditions. More precisely, future studies should aim to investigate the association in a prospective design.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.