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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eat Behav. 2010 Sep 21;12(1):1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2010.08.008

Table 3.

Odds Ratios of past 12 month Psychiatric Disorder by BMI for each Ethnic Racial Group Age, Gender, Smoking, and Physical Status Adjusted.

Non-Latino
White
Latino Asian African
American
Afro-Caribbean
N=4112 N=2529 N=2079 N=3336 N=1370
Past 12-month
Psychiatric Disorder
Odds
Ratio
95%
CI
Odds
Ratio
95%
CI
Odds
Ratio
95%
CI
Odds
Ratio
95%
CI
Odds
Ratio
95% CI
Depression
     Major
Depressive Episode
1.10 (0.90-
1.36)
0.74 (0.53-
1.04)
0.91 (0.42-
1.94)
0.85 (0.60-
1.22)
1.85 (0.61-
5.64)
     Dysthymia 1.09 (0.72-
1.66)
0.57 (0.26-
1.27)
2.30 (0.81-
6.58)
1.19 (0.65-
2.21)
0.45 (0.06-
3.08)
     Any
Depressive Disorder
Anxiety
1.08 (0.87-
1.33)
0.72 (0.51-
1.02)
1.00 (0.53-
1.90)
0.91 (0.63-
1.31)
1.87 (0.62-
5.67)
     Agoraphobia
without panic
0.60 (0.30-
1.21)
1.93 (0.91-
4.09)
2.91 (0.48-
17.60)
1.25 (0.53-
2.98)
0.78 (0.05-
11.07)
     Panic Disorder 1.28 (0.89-
1.86)
0.86 (0.46-
1.61)
1.57 (0.41-
6.07)
1.10 (0.64-
1.88)
0.63 (0.13-
3.00)
     GAD 1.05 (0.78-
1.41)
0.56 (0.30-
1.05)
0.60 (0.27-
1.34)
1.28 (0.69-
2.37)
3.00 (0.95-
9.48)
     Social Phobia 0.88 (0.69-
1.12)
0.93 (0.57-
1.50)
0.92 (0.39-
2.18)
0.95 (0.53-
1.70)
5.34 (1.84-
15.48)*
     PTSD 1.21 (0.87-
1.68)
0.80 (0.42-
1.54)
2.81 (0.81-
9.77)
1.25 (0.75-
2.08)
1.43 (0.54-
3.80)
     Any Anxiety
Disorder
0.90 (0.71-
1.14)
0.98 (0.70-
1.39)
1.02 (0.53-
1.96)
1.22 (0.81-
1.83)
2.80 (1.34-
5.83)*
Substance
Abuse/Dependence
Disorder
     Alcohol
Dependence/Abuse
0.58 (0.33-
1.01)*
0.69 (0.26-
1.84)
1.84 (0.62-
5.48)
0.42 (0.16-
1.06)
0.52 (0.02-
16.82)
     Drug
Dependence/Abuse
1.01 (0.38-
2.69)
0.67 (0.24-
1.89)
0.24 (0.06-
0.94)*
0.43 (0.13-
1.48)
0.24 (0.00-
24.69)
     Any Substance
Disorder
0.70 (0.36-
1.37)
0.57 (0.27-
1.20)
0.91 (0.35-
2.35)
0.43 (0.19-
0.96)*
0.37 (0.02-
5.87)
Any Psych Disorder 0.96 (0.79-
1.17)
0.91 (0.65-
1.27)
0.78 (0.52-
1.18)
0.98 (0.71-
1.36)
2.54 (1.22-
5.30)*
*

p<.05