The Association Between Food Insecurity and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Canada: A Population-based Cohort Study

Households were considered food insecure if any of the following conditions were met in the past 12 months: 1) a member of the household worried that there would not be enough food to eat because of a lack of money, 2) a member's food intake was reduced as a result of there not being enough food to eat, or 3) the desired variety or quality of foods was not eaten because of a lack of money. This exposure variable was operationalized as a binary variable with levels of food secure vs. food insecure.