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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Dec 11;17(3):481–486. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.560

Table 4.

Odds ratios associated with demographic, weight cycling, and meal skipping variables in the prediction of the metabolic syndrome

Variable	Odds ratios	95% CI	P value
Full model
Gender	29.55	3.03−287.99	0.004
Ethnicity^a	0.04	0.005−0.38	0.005
BMI	1.19	1.04−1.35	0.009
Weight cycling	0.38	0.17−0.83	0.016
Meal skipping	4.31	1.08−17.19	0.038

Values based on hierarchical logistic regression analyses with demographic variables entered in the first step, weight cycling in the second step, and meal skipping in the third step.

CI, confidence interval.

Ethnicity analyses contain data only from black and white patients due to small numbers of other ethnic groups in this sample.