Table 1.

Prevalence of overweight, obesity and potential confounders within general and over-indebted population

	GNT-HIS (general population) n = 8318		OI-survey (over-indebted population) n = 949
	% with parameter present	95% CI	% with parameter present	95% CI
Overweight	44.3	43.2–45.3	56.8	53.6–59.9
Obesity	11.3	10.6–12.0	25.1	22.3–27.8
Sex (male)	46.5	45.5–47.6	47.0	43.8–50.2
Age (>40 years)	62.1	61.1–63.1	52.9	49.7–56.1
Education (≥10 years)	68.3	67.3–69.3	40.0	36.9–43.2
Income, net (>1500 €)*	54.4*	53.3–55.5	22.6	19.9–25.2
Depression (yes)	9.4	8.8–10.0	38.9	35.8–42.0
Smoking (yes)	33.9	32.9–34.9	63.0	55.9–66.1

Notes: in crude analysis, covariates were dichotomised to improve understanding

*2134 subjects gave no information about income. By excluding them from the dataset the appropriate portion value for this character would be 73.2%