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Preventing Chronic Disease | Association of the Neighborhood Retail Food Environment with Sodium and Potassium Intake Among US Adults - CDC

CDC  hypertension  cardiovascular disease  Preventing Chronic Disease  PCD  Sodium intake  potassium intake 

High sodium intake and low potassium intake, which can contribute to hypertension and risk of cardiovascular disease, may be related to the availability of healthful food in neighborhood stores. Despite evidence linking food environment with diet quality, this relationship has not been evaluated in the United States. The modified retail food environment index (mRFEI) provides a composite measure of the retail food environment and represents the percentage of healthful-food vendors within a 0.5 mile buffer of a census tract.

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