TABLE 3.
Association of food security status and inadequate disease control among low-income NHANES participants with a chronic disease diagnosis
| Definition of inadequate disease control |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Hypertension |
Hyperlipidemia |
Diabetes |
|
| SBP >140 mm Hg or DBP >90 mm Hg | Total cholesterol ≥5.18 mmol/L or LDL cholesterol ≥ 3.63 mmol/L | HbA1c >7% | |
| Food secure | |||
| Unadjusted prevalence, % | 34.8 | 73.8 | 48.7 |
| Food insecure | |||
| Unadjusted prevalence, % | 34.4 | 75.6 | 69.5 |
| CRR (95% CI)1 | 1.00 (0.78–1.28) | 1.03 (0.91–1.16) | 1.39 (1.10–1.74) |
| ARR (95% CI)1 | 1.02 (0.79–1.32) | 1.04 (0.92–1.17) | 1.35 (1.05–1.74) |
1
Relative risk is for food-insecure adults compared with food-secure adults. CRR is adjusted for age, gender, and race/ethnicity. ARR is adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and income as both a continuous and an ordinal variable.