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. 2015 Jun 17;8(3):220–233. doi: 10.1159/000435826

Table 3.

Socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics among Balearic Islands' women classified as overweight/obese (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) and showing abdominally obese (WHtR ≥ 0.5)

Overweight/obesity
Abdominal obesity
BMI < 25 kg/m2 N (%) BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 N (%) crude OR a (95% CI) adjusted OR b (95% CI) WHtR < 0.5 N (%) WHtR ≥ 0.5 N (%) crude OR a (95% CI) adjusted OR b (95% CI)
Age group
 18–35 years old
 36–55 years old
270 (71.4)
136 (53.8)
108 (28.6)
116 (46.2)
1.00
2.15 (1.54, 3.00)***
1.00
1.85 (1.18, 2.90)**
303 (80.1)
141 (55.8)
75 (19.9)
111 (44.2)
1.00
3.19 (2.24, 4.56)***
1.00
2.41 (1.48, 3.93)***

Place of birth
 Balearic Islands
 Other regions from Spain
 South America
 Other countries
259 (65.5)
97 (68.5)
38 (53.7)
11 (47.8)
136 (34.5)
44 (31.5)
32 (46.3)
13 (52.2)
1.00
0.87 (0.57, 1.34)
1.63 (0.97, 2.76)
2.06 (0.89, 4.81)
1.00
0.84 (0.53, 1.33)
1.63 (0.91, 2.92)
1.76 (0.68, 4.55)
282 (71.5)
102 (72.3)
41 (58.2)
14 (56.5)
113 (28.5)
39 (27.7)
29 (41.8)
10 (43.5)
1.00
0.96 (0.62, 1.50)
1.80 (1.06, 3.07)*
 1.93 (0.82, 4.53)
1.00
0.88 (0.53, 1.47)
2.07 (1.10, 3.89)*
 1.49 (0.54, 4.13)

Marital status
 Single
 Married or coupled
 Divorced or widowed
196 (72.8)
195 (59.1)
14 (45.2)
73 (27.2)
135 (40.9)
17 (54.8)
1.00
1.85 (1.30, 2.61)**
1 3.24 (1.52, 6.91)**
1.00
1.41 (0.86, 2.29)
2.19 (0.90, 5.29)
221 (82.3)
206 (62.5)
15 (48.4)
48 (17.7)
124 (37.5)
16 (51.6)
1.00
2.79 (1.89, 4.11)***
 4.95 (2.29, 10.70)***
1.00
1.83 (1.05, 3.17)*
 2.59 (1.02, 6.55)*

Living with children
 None
 At least one child at home
279 (69.7)
125 (54.4)
121 (30.3)
105 (45.6)
1.00
1.93 (1.37, 2.70)***
1.00
0.96 (0.59, 1.56)
312 (78.0)
129 (56.0)
88 (22.0)
101 (44.0)
1.00
2.79 (1.95, 3.98)***
1.00
1.23 (0.73, 2.06)

Educational level
 Low
 Medium
 High
26 (52.1)
191 (60.6)
189 (71.2)
23 (47.9)
125 (39.4)
76 (28.8)
1.00
0.71 (0.38, 1.30)
0.44 (0.24, 0.83)**
1.00
1.00 (0.51, 1.96)
0.61 (0.30, 1.24)
24 (48.9)
208 (65.9)
213 (80.2)
25 (51.1)
108 (34.1)
52 (19.8)
1.00
0.49 (0.26, 0.92)*
 0.24 (0.12, 0.45)***
1.00
0.91 (0.45, 1.84)
0.44 (0.21, 0.93)*

Professional profile
 Student
 Unemployed
 Employed
89 (69.7)
25 (44.6)
291 (65.2)
38 (30.3)
31 (55.4)
156 (34.8)
1.00
2.85 (1.48, 5.47)**
 1.23 (0.79, 1.89)
1.00
1.87 (0.87, 4.00)
1.05 (0.61, 1.81)
101 (79.5)
23 (41.8)
26 (20.5)
33 (58.2)
1.00
5.40 (2.70, 10.80)***
 1.57 (0.97, 2.56)
1.00
2.59 (1.13, 5.96)*
 1.18 (0.64, 2.21)

Current smoking habit
 No
 Occasionally
 Yes
272 (64.4)
20 (62.5)
112 (63.6)
150 (35.6)
12 (37.5)
64 (36.4)
1.00
1.04 (0.72, 1.50)
1.09 (0.52, 2.29)
1.00
1.07 (0.70, 1.63)
1.24 (0.55, 2.79)
298 (70.7)
24 (75.0)
118 (67.2)
124 (29.3)
8 (25.0)
58 (32.8)
1.00
1.17 (0.80, 1.72)
0.80 (0.35, 1.84)
1.00
1.17 (0.74, 1.85)
0.81 (0.32, 2.07)

LTPA
 No
 Yes
188 (60.8)
217 (67.6)
121 (39.2)
104 (32.4)
1.00
0.74 (0.54, 1.03)
1.00
0.84 (0.58, 1.22)
200 (64.6)
243 (75.6)
109 (35.4)
78 (24.4)
1.00
0.59 (0.41, 0.83)**
1.00
0.66 (0.44, 0.99)*
a

Univariate analysis (logistic regression analysis considering the effect of one explanatory variable).

*

p <0.05

**

p <0.01

***

p < 0.001.

b

Multivariate analyses (multiple logistic regressions considering the simultaneous effect of all the explanatory variables).

*

p < 0.05

**

p < 0.01

***

p < 0.001.