Table 6.

Correlates of dietary patters among university students: multivariate analysis.

Correlatesa	Unadjusted OR	ORa	95% CI of the ORa	p-Value
Vegetarian/low calories diet versus mixed dietb
Older age	1.04	1.04	0.98–1.11	0.168
Income level				0.012
Quartile 1 (reference)	1.00
Quartile 2	0.95	0.93	0.69–1.26	0.630
Quartile 3	1.01	0.94	0.68–1.31	0.721
Quartile 4	1.41	1.45	1.06–1.99	0.021
Body mass index				0.035
Underweight (reference)	1.00
Normal weight	1.25	1.41	0.96–2.07	0.076
Overweight	1.30	1.45	0.90–2.32	0.136
Obese	1.44	2.80	1.40–5.61	0.004
Private versus public university	1.18	1.23	0.96–1.57	0.099
Higher physical activity level				0.651
No activity (reference)	1.00
Quartile 1	1.13	1.21	0.88–1.64	0.237
Quartile 2	1.11	1.19	0.86–1.64	0.304
Quartile 3	1.12	1.05	0.76–1.47	0.759
Quartile 4	1.03	1.23	0.86–1.75	0.260
Female versus male gender	1.36	1.62	1.24–2.12	<0.001
Westernized diet versus mixed dietc
Older Age	0.78	0.98	0.93–1.04	0.534
Income level				0.468
Quartile 1 (reference)	1.0
Quartile 2	0.95	0.90	0.68–1.17	0.422
Quartile 3	1.21	1.06	0.80–1.41	0.693
Quartile 4	1.23	1.12	0.84–1.49	0.458
Body mass index				0.616
Underweight (reference)	1.00
Normal weight	1.13	1.08	0.78–1.51	0.643
Overweight	1.25	0.96	0.63–1.45	0.835
Obese	1.35	1.36	0.73–2.53	0.335
Private versus public university	1.22	1.15	0.92–1.43	0.214
Higher physical activity level				0.038
No activity (reference)	1.00
Quartile 1 Low physical activity	0.73	0.75	0.56–1.00	0.046
Quartile 2 moderate Physical activity	0.74	0.63	0.47–0.86	0.003
Quartile 3 high physical activity	0.96	0.82	0.61–1.09	0.171
Quartile 4 very high physical activity	1.19	0.86	0.63–1.18	0.359
Female versus male gender	0.69	0.64	0.50–0.80	<0.001

^aPhysical activity level, body mass index class, and income level are categorical variables; age is a continuous variable.

^bN = 1392; Nagelkerke R Square = 0.036; Hosmer-Lemeshow test p = 0.041.

^cN = 1708; Nagelkerke R Square = 0.031; Hosmer-Lemeshow test p = 0.363.