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. 2021 Dec 7;4(12):e2137503. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.37503

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.

a

Scores range from 0 to 9, with higher scores indicating a greater risk of physiologic dysregulation.

b

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.