Table 4:

Adjusted hazard ratios from Cox proportional hazard models on all-cause premature mortality among 510 010 adults aged 18–82 years at interview (3 390 500 person-years)^*

Household food insecurity status	Sex–age adjusted, HR (95% CI)	Fully adjusted, HR (95% CI)
Food-secure	1.00 (ref.)	1.00 (ref.)
Marginally food-insecure	1.62 (1.51–1.73)	1.10 (1.03–1.18)
Moderately food-insecure	1.96 (1.86–2.07)	1.11 (1.05–1.18)
Severely food-insecure	3.25 (3.04–3.48)	1.37 (1.27–1.47)

Note: CI = confidence interval, HR = hazard ratio, ref. = reference category.

^*Person-years were rounded to the nearest digit of 5. Hazard ratios (HRs) of food insecurity are displayed alongside 95% confidence interval (CI) in parentheses. The sex–age-adjusted model was adjusted for respondents’ sex and age at interview. The fully adjusted model, for the overall sample and by-sex subsamples, was further adjusted for household income, highest education in household, household type, housing tenure, acute care admission to hospital in the past 2 years, number of self-reported chronic conditions, smoker status and past-year alcohol consumption history.