Food insecurity and health-related quality of life among a nationally representative sample of older adults: cross-sectional analysis

Table 3 Sex-stratified multivariate-adjusted associations ^a between food security status and health-related quality of life among US older adults attending National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2012

	Food security n = 2,424	Marginal food security n = 385		Food insecurity n = 566		P-trend
	OR	OR 95% CI	P-value	OR 95% CI	P-value
Days of poor physical health/ month
Males
0 days (Ref.)
1–5 days	Ref.	1.18 (0.55, 2.54)	0.66	1.39 (0.70, 2.77)	0.35	0.36
6–15 days	Ref.	1.03 (0.45, 2.38)	0.94	2.31 (1.11, 4.84) *	0.03	0.04 *
16–30 days	Ref.	1.00 (0.56, 1.78)	0.99	1.40 (0.81, 2.42)	0.23	0.28
Females
0 days (Ref.)
1–5 days	Ref.	0.84 (0.51, 1.37)	0.48	2.46 (1.63, 3.71) *	< 0.0001**	0.0004 **
6–15 days	Ref.	1.06 (0.59, 1.91)	0.85	1.78 (1.08, 2.96) *	0.03*	0.03 *
16–30 days	Ref.	1.40 (0.84, 2.32)	0.20	2.39 (1.50, 3.81) *	0.0002**	0.0001 **

^a Models were adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, poverty: income ratio, and survey year
* P-value < 0.05
** P-value < 0.001

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