Table 3.

Odds Ratio and Respective 95% Confidence Intervals of the Association Between Eating Patterns and Wheezing, São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil, 2010

	Wheezing last 12 months
Dietary patterns	n	Crude OR	95% CI	Adjusted OR	95% CI
Prudent dietary pattern
Percentile <75%	889	0.80	0.53–1.19	0.82	0.52–1.28
Percentile ≥75% (reference category)	298	1		1
Western dietary pattern
Percentile <75% (reference category)	890	1		1
Percentile ≥75%	297	1.74	1.18–2.55	1.77	1.10–2.84

Multivariate model adjusted for age (≥10 years reference category), gender (female reference category), education of caregivers (fifth grade ≥reference category), per capita income (≥1 MS reference category), number of people living in the household (≤3 reference category), presence of smokers in the house (No reference category), body–mass index (BMI), stages of sexual maturity (prepubertal reference category), physical activity (≥300 min of activity per week reference category), and energy intake.

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

Boldface numbers are statistically significant.