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. 2015 Mar 11;18(16):2998–3012. doi: 10.1017/S1368980015000415

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.