Dietary diversity and food security status among heart failure patients in the north of Iran

BMC Nutrition

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
Characteristic	Adjusted OR (95% C) ^a	P	Characteristic	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

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