Table 6.
Logistic regression analysis of obesity associated with three different levels of household food insecurity†
| Women (n 1905) | Men (n 1221) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted OR | Adjusted OR‡ | Unadjusted OR | Adjusted OR‡ | |||||
| OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | |
| Food-secure§ | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Marginally food-insecure | 1·46* | 1·08, 1·98 | 1·57** | 1·15, 2·15 | 1·51 | 0·98, 2·32 | 1·57* | 1·01, 2·43 |
| Moderately food-insecure | 1·04 | 0·84, 1·28 | 1·12 | 0·90, 1·39 | 0·69** | 0·52, 0·91 | 0·77 | 0·58, 1·03 |
| Severely food-insecure | 0·8 | 0·57, 1·11 | 0·89 | 0·63, 1·27 | 0·52** | 0·34, 0·79 | 0·56* | 0·36, 0·87 |
*P < 0·05; **P < 0·01; significantly different from food security.
†
First Nations, Food Nutrition and Environment Study. Data are unweighted.
‡
OR from a multivariate logistic regression adjusting for age, income, years of education and region. The analyses excluded participants with missing values for all variables accounted for in the model.
§
Reference category.