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The MD score (0-9) was calculated to indicate the dietary pattern adherence. Body mass index (BMI; kg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      ) was used to estimate obesity.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Analysis:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Path analysis was used to quantify the pathways between food environment, MD adherence, and obesity. Proper data transformation was made using Box\u2013Cox power transformation to meet certain analysis assumptions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The participants were from 49 states of the United States, with the majority (64.42%) residing in the South. Most of the participants were retired, female, white, married, having less than college graduate education, having annual household income \u226475 000, and having health insurance. The means of mRFEI was 10.92 (standard deviation [SD] = 10.19), MD score was 4.36 (SD = 1.70), and the BMI was 28.96 kg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      (SD = 5.90). Access to healthy food outlets (\u03b2 = .04, P &lt; .0001) and MD adherence (\u03b2 = .08, P &lt; .0001) had significant and inverse relationships with BMI, respectively. Mediterranean diet adherence mediated the relationship between food environment and obesity among a subpopulation who had an annual household income of &lt;$75 000 (\u03b2 = \u2212.02, P = .0391).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Population-tailored interventions\/policies to modify food environment and promote MD consumption are needed in order to combat the obesity crisis in the United States.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0890117120905240","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,12]],"date-time":"2020-02-12T10:22:06Z","timestamp":1581502926000},"page":"652-658","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Does Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Mediate the Association Between Food Environment and Obesity Among Non-Hispanic Black and White Older US Adults? 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