Table 4.
Estimated beta coefficients from uni- and multivariate Poisson regression models for the prediction of height Z score according to the sexual maturation of school children aged 8–14 years from Florianópolis, South of Brazil, 2007
| Sexual maturation classification |
Males |
Females |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude beta (95% CI)* | Adjusted beta (95% CI)* § | p § | Crude beta (95% CI)* | Adjusted beta (95% CI)* § | p § | |
| Early |
0.33 (0.12; 0.54) |
0.46 (0.26; 0.66) |
<0.001 |
0.33 (0.16; 0.50) |
0.37 (0.14; 0.59) |
0.005 |
| Normal |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
1 |
- |
| Late |
−0.23 (−0.50; 0.04) |
−0.32 (−0.63; −0.02) |
0.039 |
−0.27 (−0.39; −0.16) |
−0.38 (−0.56; −0.20) |
0.001 |
| Variance homogeneity† | 0.303 | 0.367 | ||||
*95% confidence interval;
§Linear regression model, adjusted for maternal BMI, active commuting, age, birth weight, school type and interaction between maternal BMI and school type.
†p value from Breusch-Pagan and Cook-Weisberg test.