Table 4.
Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals of being in dietary diversity scores > =2 or being in food secure or mild insecure status by characteristics of patients independently related to dietary diversity score or food secure status
| Characteristic | Dietary diversity score | Characteristic | Food secure status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjusted OR (95% C) a | P | Adjusted OR (95% CI)a | P | ||
| Smoking status | 0.036 | Sex | 0.061 | ||
| Non-smoker | 1.00 | Male | 1.00 | ||
| Former-smoker | 2.70 (1.27–5.75) | 0.010 | Female | 1.90 (0.97–3.71) | |
| Current smoker | 1.31 (0.47–3.66) | 0.604 | Socioeconomic status | < 0.001 | |
| Supplement use | 0.019 | Low | 1.00 | ||
| No | 1.00 | Middle | 3.48 (1.79–6.76) | < 0.001 | |
| Yes | 2.42 (1.16–5.05) | High | 20.32 (2.56–161.19) | 0.004 | |
| Hypertension disease | 0.006 | ||||
| Yes | 1.00 | ||||
| No | 2.58 (1.31–5.08) | ||||
| TC | 0.99 (0.98–1.00) | 0.051 | |||
| Ejection fraction | 1.03 (0.99–1.05) | 0.073 | |||
aTo predict dietary diversity scores > = 2 or being in food secure or mild insecure status based on patients’ characteristics, a backward stepwise multiple logistic regression was performed
TC indicated total cholesterol, OR odds ratio, CI, confidence interval