Table II.

Association between reported hunger (sometimes, often or always) and health outcomes [OR (95% CI)]

		Self-rated health (fair/poor)	Physical symptoms about every week or more frequent	Medicine use last month
Crude rates	Never Sometimes, often or always	1 1.54 (1.21–1.95) (p<0.001)	1 1.26 (1.01–1.56) (p=0.04)	1 1.62 (1.30–2.02) (p<0.001)
Adjusted for socio-demographic factors (p<0.001)	Never Sometimes, often or always	1 1.60 (1.23–2.06) (p<0.001)	1 1.34 (1.06–1.68) (p=0.01)	1 1.78 (1.42–2.26) (p<0.001)