Food insecurity among Latina women in Idaho and Washington: structural vulnerability, psychosocial factors, and cardiometabolic risk

Introduction

Latina women in the United States face overlapping nutritional, social, and cardiometabolic vulnerability, yet how food insecurity, excess weight, and cardiometabolic risk co-occur in underrepresented communities remains insufficiently characterized. We examined food insecurity among Latina women in Idaho and Washington as a marker of vulnerability and situated it within a broader context of excess weight, prediabetes risk, and structural and psychosocial disadvantage.