Table 5.
Television viewing as a correlate for overweight status and skinfold thicknesses (mm).*
| Overweight Status† | Skinfolds§ | |||||
| Prevalence Ratio | [95% | CI] | β | [95% | CI] | |
| Television viewing | ||||||
| ≤ 2 hrs/day | Reference | Reference | ||||
| > 2 hrs/day | 1.34 | 1.07 | 1.66 | 1.08 | 0.19 | 1.96 |
| Age (years) | 1.13 | 0.99 | 1.30 | 0.07 | -0.37 | 0.52 |
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | Reference | Reference | ||||
| Female | 0.99 | 0.77 | 1.27 | 1.59 | 0.91 | 2.27 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | Reference | Reference | ||||
| Non-Hispanic black | 1.12 | 0.81 | 1.54 | -0.39 | -1.09 | 0.30 |
| Mexican-American | 1.22 | 0.91 | 1.64 | 0.76 | -0.08 | 1.60 |
| Other | 1.34 | 0.85 | 2.12 | 0.49 | -0.79 | 1.77 |
| Poverty to income ratio | ||||||
| < 1 | 0.80 | 0.51 | 1.26 | -1.18 | -3.36 | 1.01 |
| ≥ 1 < 2 | 1.10 | 0.66 | 1.82 | -0.20 | -2.29 | 1.88 |
| ≥ 2 < 3 | 0.86 | 0.46 | 1.62 | -0.52 | -2.70 | 1.66 |
| ≥ 3 < 4 | 0.53 | 0.26 | 1.08 | -1.00 | -3.34 | 1.35 |
| ≥ 4 < 5 | 0.66 | 0.32 | 1.36 | -1.66 | -4.01 | 0.68 |
| ≥ 5 | Reference | Reference | ||||
*Bolded values indicate significance at P < 0.05.
† n =1340, F statistic = 3.41 (P = 0.009) for the overweight status multivariate Poisson regression model.
§ Skinfold thicknesses = (Subscapular + Triceps skinfolds). n = 1337, r2 = 0.042 (P = 0.0031) for the skinfolds multivariate linear regression model