TABLE 3—

Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting Overweight or Obese Status Among Children With Obese and Nonobese Mothers: Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey, 1999–2003

	Children With Obese Mothers		Children With Nonobese Mothers
	Model 1 (n = 810)	Model 2 (n = 807)	Model 3 (n = 1161)	Model 4 (n = 1161)
Race/ethnicity
Hispanica	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .
Black	0.46†	0.48†	0.64**	0.66**
White	0.59**	0.56**	0.58**	0.60**
Child’s characteristics
Boy	1.04	1.06	0.95	0.94
Age, mo (centered at mean)	1.01	1.01	1.04	1.05
Birthweight
Normala	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .
Low	0.44**	0.41***	0.86	0.85
High	1.78**	1.90**	2.43†	2.52†
First born	1.23	1.25	0.92	0.88
Mother’s characteristics
Education
Less than high schoola	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .
High school	1.19	1.25	0.78	0.78
At least some college	1.09	1.10	0.93	0.92
Age, y
25–35a	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .
< 25	1.00	1.00	0.96	0.98
> 35	1.16	1.06	1.16	1.11
Relationship status with father
Father not in homea	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .
Married to father	0.88	0.80	0.85	0.86
Cohabiting with father	0.97	0.91	0.77	0.80
Immigrant	0.86	0.77	0.97	0.83
Health status and health behaviors
Breast-fed child for 6 mo or longer	0.58**	0.60**	1.28	1.34*
High stress level	0.79	0.84	1.15	1.21
Smoked during pregnancy	1.04	1.07	0.93	0.91
Food and nutrition factors
Mother does not shop at grocery stores		1.70		1.28
Mother takes bus/taxi or walks to food store		1.00		1.26
Food insecurity		0.83		0.88
Child takes bottle to bed		2.94***		1.83**
WIC participation at age 1 y		0.75		0.95
No. of hours of television child watches per day
0–1a		. . .		. . .
2–4		1.27		1.07
≥ 5		1.05		0.78
No. of public outings for child per week
0a		. . .		. . .
1–2		1.29		1.11
≥ 3		1.01		1.20
Child care situation
At-home by parenta		. . .		. . .
In-home care provider		0.81		1.05
Center-based care provider		0.98		1.06
χ2 (df)	41.83† (17)	63.57† (28)	40.71† (17)	53.77† (28)

Note. WIC = Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Children with a body mass index at or above the 85th percentile were classified as overweight; children at or above the 95th percentile were classified as obese.

^aReference category.

*P < .10; **P < .05; ***P < .01; †P < .001.