Table 2.

Odds of moderate/severe food allergy among children with food allergy, by sociodemographic characteristics

Characteristics	Food allergy severity
	Crude	Adjusted
Sociodemographic	n = 4,610	n = 4,543
Gender
Male	Ref	Ref
Female	0.80 (0.60, 1.08)	0.77 (0.58, 1.01)
Race/ethnicity
non-Hispanic white	Ref	Ref
non-Hispanic black	1.31 (0.92, 1.88)	1.43 (0.98, 2.09)
Hispanic	0.92 (0.55, 1.54)	1.08 (0.69, 1.70)
non-Hispanic multiracial/other	1.13 (0.66, 1.94)	0.90 (0.54, 1.51)
Age group
0–5 years	Ref	Ref
6–11 years	1.43 (1.01, 2.04)†	1.51 (1.06, 2.14)†
12–17 years	1.70 (1.21, 2.38)†	1.90 (1.37, 2.62)†
Sibling status
Only child	Ref
Sibling child	1.55 (1.16, 2.06)†	1.39 (1.06, 1.81)†
Family structure
2 parents	Ref
Single mother/other	0.85 (0.63, 1.17)	0.75 (0.52, 1.06)
Mother’s education
≤ High school	Ref
> High school	1.09 (0.77, 1.55)	1.12 (0.78, 1.59)
Mother US born
Yes	Ref
No	1.01 (0.64, 1.59)	0.98 (0.61, 1.58)
Household poverty status
Poor	Ref
Near poor	0.86 (0.54, 1.38)	0.72 (0.43, 1.23)
Not poor	0.85 (0.57, 1.26)	0.71 (0.43, 1.18)

^†p < 0.05