Table 5.

Logistic Regression Odds Ratios for Overall and Abdominal Obesity among Men and Women^a

	Total Obesity	Total Obesity	Abdominal Obesity	Abdominal Obesity
	(Men)	(Women)	(Men)	(Women)
US-born black	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Foreign-born black	0.41** (0.18 – 0.94)	0.20*** (0.09 – 0.46)	0.32*** (0.17 – 0.61)	0.67 (0.27 – 1.69)
US-born white	0.81 (0.58 – 1.14)	0.46*** (0.33 – 0.64)	1.41** (1.05 – 1.91)	0.57*** (0.44 – 0.75)
Foreign-born white	0.72 (0.39 – 1.32)	0.32*** (0.15 – 0.70)	0.99 (0.56 – 1.75)	0.32*** (0.16 – 0.65)
US-born Hispanic	0.88 (0.62 – 1.26)	0.61** (0.39 – 0.95)	1.58* (1.00 – 2.50)	0.68** (0.48 – 0.94)
Foreign-born Hispanic	0.61** (0.41 – 0.89)	0.28*** (0.16 – 0.47)	0.74 (0.47 – 1.16)	0.46*** (0.29 – 0.72)

95% confidence intervals in parentheses;

^*significant at .10;

^**significant at .05;

^***significant at .01

Note.

Treating US-born black as the reference group, Model 2 was refit for the 2 obesity outcomes by sex.