Table 3.

Ethnic differences in the age- and gender-adjusted probabilities of children aged between 2 and 15 being at or above the International Obesity Task Force thresholds for overweight (but below those for obesity)^*, rather than normal or under-weight – stratified data

	1998–2001	N	2002–2005	N	2006–2009	N	Variations in overweight over time†
White English	0.18 [0.17, 0.19]	8, 787	0.20 [0.19, 0.21]	10, 554	0.18 [0.18, 0.19]	17, 259	11.96 (0.003)
White Irish	0.16 [0.09, 0.23]	189	0.18 [0.14, 0.23]	505	0.17 [0.12, 0.23]	223	0.25 (0.88)
Other White	0.13 [0.08, 0.19]	195	0.21 [0.15, 0.26]	291	0.19 [0.15, 0.23]	559	3.83 (0.15)
Black Caribbean	0.17 [0.11, 0.22]	645	0.18 [0.14, 0.22]	561	0.19 [0.15, 0.22]	542	0.32 (0.85)
Black African	0.27 [0.18, 0.37]	121	0.28 [0.20, 0.35]	453	0.22 [0.18, 0.26]	544	2.65 (0.27)
Indian	0.21 [0.15, 0.26]	587	0.17 [0.12, 0.22]	582	0.19 [0.15, 0.22]	578	0.82 (0.66)
Pakistani	0.14 [0.09, 0.18]	804	0.21 [0.16, 0.28]	630	0.21 [0.17, 0.25]	657	7.22 (0.03)
Bangladeshi	0.11 [0.05, 0.18]	611	0.20 [0.12, 0.28]	442	0.20 [0.14, 0.27]	221	4.40 (0.11)
Other South Asian	0.15 [0.08, 0.23]	132	0.16 [0.10, 0.21]	180	0.14 [0.11, 0.17]	587	0.60 (0.74)
Chinese	0.05 [−0.04, 0.14]	253	0.16 [0.02, 0.30]	187	0.27 [0.13, 0.41]	49	7.35 (0.03)
Other	0.18 [0.12, 0.24]	269	0.22 [0.16, 0.28]	273	0.20 [0.16, 0.25]	326	0.66 (0.72)
Ethnic variations in overweight†	27.36 (0.002)		10.80 (0.37)		19.04 (0.03)

Note: Age- and gender-adjusted predictive margins [95% confidence intervals].

Only those with unweighted N's of over 30 are included in table.

^*Age and gender-specific cut-off points for children extrapolated from adult body mass index cut-offs of 25 kg m⁻².

^†χ² (P-value).