Fig 1.
Flow chart of the selected studies.
Table 1.
Quality assessment using Newcastle-Ottawa scale adapted for cross-sectional studies.
Fig 2.
Forest plot for the meta-analysis for the association between food insecurity and multimorbidity.
Abbreviations: IV: inverse variance.
Fig 3.
Forest plot for the meta-analysis for the association between multimorbidity and food insecurity.
Abbreviations: IV: inverse variance, DL: DerSimonian and Laird.
Table 2.
Characteristics of the observational studies.