Socioeconomic Status, Diet, and Behavioral Factors and Cardiometabolic Diseases and Mortality

In this prospective cohort study of health professionals, associations between diet and health outcomes remained similar without adjusting for SES factors, while health behaviors, including diet, accounted for a large proportion of the associations between neighborhood SES and health. These findings highlight the importance of health behaviors, particularly high-quality diets, in promoting individual health and possibly reducing health disparities associated with SES.