Eating Away from Home and Risk of All-cause Mortality

NCT ID: NCT03220763

Last Updated: 2025-03-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 9107 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2017-12-31

Brief Summary

The proposed study will test the hypothesis that frequency of eating away from home meals is independently related to the prospective risk of mortality in the US population. The study will use public-domain mortality linked data from US national Surveys to address this question.

Detailed Description

This study uses public domain data collected in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) conducted in 1999-2000, 2001-2002, and 2003-2004 by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data on frequency of eating restaurant meals were collected at that time. The surveys have been linked to the National Death Index and mortality status information is available in public-release files. The investigators aim to examine if exposure to restaurant meals at baseline is prospectively linked to the risk of mortality. All data are anonymized and available in the public domain.

Conditions

Mortality

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Thirds of number of restaurant meals

Respondent self-reports of # of times/week restaurant prepared meals were consumed. The respondents will be categorized into approximate thirds.

This is an observational study--there is no intervention.

Intervention Type: OTHER

This is an observational study, there is no intervention.

Interventions

This is an observational study--there is no intervention.

This is an observational study, there is no intervention.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1999-2004, respondent
• Aged 40 or older at baseline

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant or lactating
• No mobile examination center exam
• No exposure information
• No National Death Index linkage
• No followup time

• Minimum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Queens College, The City University of New York

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ashima Kant

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Ashima Kant, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Faculty at Queens College of CUNY

Other Identifiers

69741-00 47

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

69741-00 47

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id