Table 9.
Odds ratios and 95 % confidence interval for low &BF† from the adjusted logistic regression analyses in 18-year-old men and women, Johannesburg–Soweto, South Africa, Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort
| Step 1 | Step 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Adjusted OR‡ | 95 % CI | Adjusted OR‡ | 95 % CI | |
| Men (n 550) | |||||
| Intrinsic factors | |||||
| Height | 550 | 1·02 | 0·99, 1·05 | 1·03 | 0·99, 1·06 |
| Age (<18 years§) | 217 | ||||
| ≥18 years | 333 | 1·68** | 1·17, 2·41 | 1·74** | 1·20, 2·51 |
| Population group (black African§) | 461 | ||||
| White | 35 | 0·55 | 0·26, 1·15 | 0·66 | 0·29, 1·52 |
| Mixed ancestry | 54 | 2·34* | 1·19, 4·60 | 2·38* | 1·20, 4·72 |
| Low birth weight (<2500 g) (no§) | 496 | ||||
| Yes | 54 | 1·60 | 0·84, 3·02 | 1·60 | 0·84, 3·02 |
| Household socio-economic factors | |||||
| Caregiver education (3rd tertile (higher)§) | 79 | ||||
| ≤Primary school | 79 | 2·03(*) | 0·99, 4·16 | ||
| Secondary school | 392 | 1·54 | 0·88, 2·71 | ||
| Adolescent smoking status (never smoked§) | 143 | ||||
| Previous smoker | 160 | 0·90 | 0·57, 1·44 | ||
| Current smoker | 247 | 1·60* | 1·03, 2·48 | ||
| Cox/Snell and Nagelkerke R 2 estimates | 0·036, 0·049 | 0·057, 0·078 | |||
| Deviance | 714·8 | 702·69 | |||
| Women (n 520) | |||||
| Intrinsic factors | |||||
| Height | 520 | 1·04(*) | 0·99, 1·08 | 1·04(*) | 0·99, 1·08 |
| Age (<18 years§) | 219 | ||||
| ≥18 years | 301 | 2·20** | 1·30, 3·73 | 2·21** | 1·31, 3·74 |
| Population group (black African§) | 439 | ||||
| White | 17 | 2·84(*) | 1·00, 8·08 | 3·10(*) | 0·92, 10·5 |
| Mixed ancestry | 64 | 2·40** | 1·30, 4·41 | 2·48** | 1·29, 4·76 |
| Age of entry into menarche (<13 years§) | 203 | ||||
| ≥13 years | 317 | 1·64(*) | 0·98, 2·73 | 1·63(*) | 0·98, 2·72 |
| Neighbourhood socio-economic factors | |||||
| Place of residence (Soweto§) | 435 | ||||
| Metropolitan Johannesburg | 85 | 0·90 | 0·44, 1·86 | ||
| Cox/Snell and Nagelkerke R 2 estimates | 0·061, 0·101 | 0·061, 0·101 | |||
| Deviance | 448·60 | 448·5 | |||
%BF, percentage body fat.
(*) P<0·10, *P<0·05, **P<0·01, ***P<0·001.
Low %BF was defined as fat mass ≤15·00th percentile( 49 ).
OR adjusted by logistic regression.
Reference category.