Household food (in)security and nutritional status of urban poor children aged 6 to 23 months in Kenya

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Bivariate and multiple Cox regression hazard ratio on stunting (n = 6858)

Variable	M1: Bivariate			M2: Adjusted for WI			M3: Other covariates
Variable	HR	95 % CI		HR	95 % CI		HR	95 % CI
Food security
Food secure	1			1			1
Moderate	1.16^**	1.07	1.26	1.15^**	1.05	1.25	1.12^**	1.02	1.22
Food insecure	1.23^**	1.11	1.35	1.21^**	1.09	1.33	1.15^*	1.03	1.28
Wealth index
Poorest	1			1			1
Middle	0.86^**	0.79	0.93	0.87^**	0.80	0.94	0.82^**	1.02	1.22
Least poor	0.89^**	0.82	0.96	0.93	0.86	1.02	0.79^*	1.03	1.28
Study site
Korogocho	1						1
Viwandani	0.85^**	0.79	0.91				0.95	0.86	1.04
Child sex
Male	1						1
Female	0.80^**	0.75	0.85				0.80^**	0.75	0.86

WI = Wealth index; Model 1 (M1): Bivariate association; Model 2 (M2): Includes both food security and asset wealth index; Model 3 (M3): Includes model 2 and controls for other covariates: Mother and child characteristics (Age at birth, education level, parity at birth, breastfeeding, birth weight) and Household characteristics (head education, sex, age and size)
Significant at ^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01

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