TABLE 3.

Eating in the absence of hunger at ages 5 and 7 y as a predictor of girls’ overweight¹

Outcomes	Total sample size	Odds ratio (95% confidence limits)
Overweight at both ages (n = 19)2	102	4.63 (1.4, 15.2)
BMI above the median at both ages (n = 44)4	102	2.55 (1.1, 5.6)

¹Eating in the absence of hunger was coded as a dichotomous variable, where high snack food intake at both ages = 1.

²BMI ≥ 85th percentile (16); coded as a dichotomous variable, where overweight at both ages = 1.

³P < 0.01.

⁴Girls’ median BMI = 15.6 at age 5 y and 16.1 at age 7 y.

⁵P < 0.05.