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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2010 Mar 22;49(7):648–655. doi: 10.1177/0009922810362098

Table 3.

Logistic Regressions of the Effects of Weight Status on Parent-Reported Overall Health Conditions, for Boys and Girlsa

ORs Girls
Boys
aOR CI P aOR CI P
 Good, fair, or poor health
 Above 99th percentile 1.79 [0.76–4.22] .184 1.59 [0.89–2.84] .117
 Obese 0.50** [0.31–0.82] .006 1.22 [0.63–2.34] .551
 Overweight 0.91 [0.53–1.55] .723 1.13 [0.70–1.82] .608
Health worse than 1 year ago
 Above 99th percentile 2.58 [0.39–16.97] .322 1.42 [0.29–7.00] .665
 Obese 0.85 [0.20–3.57] .829 0.50 [0.11–2.35] .381
 Overweight 0.55 [0.14–2.12] .385 0.65 [0.15–2.82] .559
Any crawl/walk/run/play limitation
 Above 99th percentile 8.50** [2.20–32.85] .002 5.80* [1.25–26.98] .025
 Obese 1.39 [0.37–5.17] .622 5.63* [1.20–26.38] .028
 Overweight 0.88 [0.21–3.73] .866 1.65 [0.37–7.43] .512
Any health care visits in past year
 Above 99th percentile 1.44 [0.29–7.16] .652 2.98* [1.22–7.24] .017
 Obese 1.09 [0.40–2.96] .867 2.22 [0.69–7.16] .180
 Overweight 0.87 [0.44–1.73] .686 1.01 [0.46–2.23] .981
Hospitalized in past year
 Above 99th percentile 1.42 [0.38–5.28] .600 0.79 [0.28–2.26] .658
 Obese 0.61 [0.23–1.56] .297 0.82 [0.19–3.50] .791
 Overweight 1.04 [0.40–2.74] .929 0.74 [0.29–1.91] .532

Abbreviations: aOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

a

*P < .05,

**

P < .01;

adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, income, and insurance status.