Table 4.
Relative Odds of Being Underweight or Obese in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Compared With Population Norms Adjusted for Age in Years68
| Characteristic | BMI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 18.5 |
≥ 30 |
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| OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | |
| Female | ||||||
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 0.6 | 0.4 to 0.9 | .006 | 1.5 | 1.2 to 1.8 | .001 |
| Other leukemia | 1.2 | 0.6 to 2.1 | .58 | 1.1 | 0.7 to 1.7 | .59 |
| Brain tumors | 1.3 | 0.9 to 1.9 | .13 | 1.3 | 1.0 to 1.6 | .06 |
| Hodgkin's disease | 1.7 | 1.3 to 2.3 | .001 | 0.8 | 0.6 to 1.0 | .02 |
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | 1.6 | 0.9 to 2.5 | .09 | 0.5 | 0.3 to 0.8 | .004 |
| Wilms' tumor | 1.8 | 1.2 to 2.8 | .003 | 0.6 | 0.4 to 1.0 | .04 |
| Neuroblastoma | 1.5 | 0.9 to 2.7 | .15 | 0.8 | 0.4 to 1.3 | .34 |
| Soft tissue sarcomas | 1.4 | 0.9 to 2.1 | .09 | 0.7 | 0.5 to 1.0 | .05 |
| Bone malignancies | ||||||
| No amputation | 1.9 | 1.2 to 2.9 | .008 | 0.5 | 0.3 to 0.8 | .006 |
| Male | ||||||
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 2.4 | 1.6 to 3.6 | .001 | 1.2 | 1.0 to 1.5 | .02 |
| Other leukemia | 1.6 | 0.5 to 5.0 | .45 | 0.8 | 0.5 to 1.3 | .42 |
| Brain tumors | 2.7 | 1.6 to 4.4 | .001 | 0.9 | 0.7 to 1.2 | .50 |
| Hodgkin's disease | 3.5 | 2.3 to 5.3 | .001 | 0.8 | 0.5 to 1.0 | .06 |
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | 3.1 | 1.9 to 5.2 | .001 | 0.7 | 0.5 to 0.9 | .007 |
| Wilms' tumor | 5.5 | 3.1 to 9.7 | .001 | 0.6 | 0.3 to 1.0 | .04 |
| Neuroblastoma | 4.9 | 2.4 to 10.0 | .001 | 0.4 | 0.1 to 0.8 | .01 |
| Soft tissue sarcomas | 3.5 | 2.0 to 6.0 | .001 | 0.8 | 0.5 to 1.1 | .11 |
| Bone malignancies | ||||||
| No amputation | 2.1 | 0.9 to 5.3 | .10 | 0.7 | 0.5 to 1.1 | .17 |
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; OR, odds ratio.