Table 5.

NHI risk status according to diverse variables

	NHI risk status
	Low		Intermediate		High
Variable	n	%	n	%	n	%	p Value
Gender
Male	4	2.2	71	38.6	109	59.2	0.001†
Female	9	12.2	43	58.1	22	29.7
Marital status
Married	1	0.7	59	43.4	76	55.9	0.002‡
Single	12	12.0	45	45.0	43	43.0
Widowed*	0	0	10	45.5	12	54.5
Disability type
Orthopaedic	10	8.1	63	50.8	51	41.1	0.078‡
Seeing	1	1.6	23	37.7	37	60.7
Hearing	1	2.2	17	37.8	27	60.0
Speaking	1	3.6	11	39.3	16	57.1
Disability proportion
0–25	0	0	19	65.5	10	34.5	0.003‡
26–50*	3	2.7	37	33.3	71	64.0
51–75	5	7.2	35	50.7	29	42.0
76–100	5	10.2	23	46.9	21	42.9
BMI classification
Underweight	0	0	10	58.8	7	41.2	0.001‡
Normal*	11	10.0	55	50.0	44	40.0
Pre-obese	0	0	47	48.5	50	51.5
Obese	2	5.9	2	5.9	30	88.2

*The groups that make the difference. Bold indicates significance.

†Mann-Whitney U Test.

‡Kruskal Wallis Test.

BMI, body mass index; NHI, Nutritional Habits Index.