The intersection of food insecure populations in the Midwest U.S. and rates of chronic health conditions

Table 5 USDA food security status and chronic condition cross-tabulation

Food security level	Diabetes		Crohn’s disease		Celiac disease		Eating disorder		Depression/ anxiety		High blood pressure		High cholesterol
Food security level	No (A)	Yes (B)	No (A)	Yes (B)	No (A)	Yes (B)	No (A)	Yes (B)	No (A)	Yes (B)	No (A)	Yes (B)	No (A)	Yes (B)
All adults
Count	958	307	1167	98	1181	84	1165	100	949	316	709	556	752	513
High food security	69.8^B	49.8^A	68.1^B	27.6^A	67.8^B	25.0^A	68.3^B	26.0^A	72.4^B	42.7^A	65.6	64.2	65.6	64.1
Food insecure	20.9^B	38.1^A	21.9^B	62.2^A	22.2^B	65.5^A	21.7^B	64.0^A	19.6^B	41.5^A	25.2	24.8	25.5	24.4
Low food security	9.4	10.4	9.5	11.2	9.6	10.7	9.4	13.0	8.6^B	12.7^A	11.4^B	7.4^A	11.8^B	6.4^A
Very low food security	11.5^B	27.7^A	12.4^B	51.0^A	12.6^B	54.8^A	12.4^B	51.0^A	11.0^B	28.8^A	13.8	17.4	13.7^B	17.9^A
Households with Children
Count	249	111	293	67	297	63	300	60	244	116	236	124	246	114
High food security	55.8^B	22.5^A	52.2^B	16.4^A	52.2^B	14.3^A	52.0^B	13.3^A	54.1^B	27.6^A	53.0^B	31.5^A	52.0^B	31.6^A
Food insecure	33.3^B	66.7^A	35.2^B	80.6^A	35.4^B	82.5^A	35.7^B	83.3^A	35.2B	61.2^A	36.0^B	58.1^A	38.2^B	55.3^A
Low food security	15.7	14.4	16.0	11.9	16.5	9.5	16.3	10.0	14.8	16.4	16.5	12.9	17.1	11.4
Very low food security	17.7^B	52.3^A	19.1^B	68.7^A	18.9^B	73.0^A	19.3^B	73.3^A	20.5^B	44.8^A	19.5^B	45.2^A	21.1^B	43.9^A
Households without children
Count	592	157	726	23	735	14	594	19	593	156	396	353	426	323
High food security	73.8	66.9	72.9	56.5	72.4	71.4	73.4^B	48.4^A	77.6^B	52.6^A	70.2	74.8	71.8	73.1
Food insecure	16.7^B	23.6^A	17.8	30.4	18.2	14.3	17.3^B	38.7^A	14.3^B	32.7^A	20.5	15.6	19.7	16.1
Low food security	7.8	8.9	8.0	8.7	8.0	7.1	7.7	16.1	6.6^B	13.5^A	9.3	6.5	10.6^B	4.6^A
Very low food security	9.0^B	14.6^A	9.8	21.7	10.2	7.1	9.6^B	22.6^A	7.8^B	19.2^A	11.1	9.1	9.2	11.5

For each demographic category (i.e., sex, age), each value of one column marked with a superscript of another column denotes significant difference at the .05 level. No superscript denotes no difference. No calculations were done across demographic categories. High food security and food insecure do not sum to 100. The difference is for a category called marginal food security. The difference in “households with Children” and “households without children” can be accounted for by a group of respondents for whom specific household make up could not be determined, and these are known as ambiguous households (n = 156)

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