Table 5. Association of Moderate and Severe Food Insecurity With Allostatic Load Conditional on SNAP Enrollment, Mixed Effects Poisson Regression Results.
Independent variableb | AL scorea | |
---|---|---|
β (95% CI) | P value | |
Moderate food insecurity | 0.07 (0.03 to 0.12) | .003 |
Severe food insecurity | 0.11 (0.07 to 0.16) | <.001 |
SNAP | 0.13 (0.09 to 0.16) | <.001 |
Moderate food insecurity × SNAP | −0.18 (−0.29 to −0.07) | .001 |
Severe food insecurity × SNAP | −0.09 (−0.17 to −0.01) | .02 |
Abbreviations: AL, allostatic load; SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Scores range from 0 to 9, with higher scores indicating a greater risk of physiologic dysregulation.
Adjusted for age, sex, race and ethnicity, educational background, marital status, number of living children, smoking, binge drinking, number of health insurance plans, out-of-pocket medical spending, employment status, household income, household wealth, cohort dummies, and year-of-survey fixed effects.