The demographic and morbidity characteristics of a population receiving food support in Israel

Table 4 Logistic regression results – Odds ratios- for morbidity from five diseases*; as the food security independent variable 1- is family living with food insecurity

	Anemia	Hyperlipidemia	Diabetes mellitus	Heart disease	Hyper-tension
Household with food insecurity	0.97	2.43^**	1.82	4.65^**	3.06^**
Age	0.99	1.06^***	1.09^***	1.05^***	1.09^***
Married	0.74	1.42	3.31^***	1.43	1.31
Jew	3.60^***	1.68	2.31	(omitted)	1.2
Ultra-Orthodox	0.39^***	0.49	0.57	0.41	0.61
Num. of persons in household	1.02	1	1	1	1.04
Receive disability benefits	1.89^**	4.16^***	4.09^***	1.25	2.46^***
Receive income support	1.03	0.62	0.74	1.14	1.11
In debt	1.21	1.08	0.87	0.95	0.67
Income per capita	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Statistics
N	362	362	362	319	362
chi²	24.74	76.72	76.08	23.66	68.91