Assessing the association between food environment and dietary inflammation by community type: a cross-sectional REGARDS study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe REGARDS parent study was reviewed and approved by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Institutional Review Board (IRB-020925004). All participants provided written informed consent. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations set forth in the Belmont Report by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Consent for publicationNot applicable (manuscript does not contain data from any individual person). Competing interestsThe authors have no competing interests to declare. Competing interests The authors have no competing interests to declare."

"Funding This research was conducted by the Diabetes Location, Environmental Attributes, and Disparities (LEAD) Network, funded through CDC cooperative agreements U01DP006293 (Drexel University), U01DP006299 (New York University School of Medicine), and U01DP006302 (University of Alabama at Birmingham), along with collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Diabetes Translation. This work was also supported by cooperative agreement U01 NS041588 co-funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services. Additional funding was provided by the NINDS of NIH under award number 1R01NS092706, the NIA of the NIH under award numbers 1R01AG049970 and 3R01AG049970-04S1, the NIDDK under award number 1R01DK124400, the Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (C.U.R.E) program funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health—2015 Formula award—SAP #4100072543, the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University, and the Built Environment and Health Research Group at Columbia University. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NINDS or the NIA. Representatives of the NINDS were involved in the review of the manuscript but were not directly involved in the collection, management, analysis or interpretation of the data. The authors thank the other investigators, the staff, and the participants of the REGARDS study for their valuable contributions. A full list of participating REGARDS investigators and institutions can be found at: https://www.uab.edu/soph/regardsstudy/."