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. 2018 Feb 1;9(1):77–89. doi: 10.14336/AD.2017.0310

Supplementary Table 1.

Stepwise multinomial logistic regression of potentially significant predictors of RTL including body mass index as a marker for obesity with RTL

RTL
≤1.060 1.060 - 1.432 >1.432
Variables OR (95 % CI ) P-value OR (95 % CI) P-value
Age - 40-60 years 2.41 (1.45 - 4.02) 0.001 1.35 (0.84 - 2.19) 0.22 Reference
Age - >60 years 2.12 (1.06 - 4.23) 0.03 1.25 (0.63 - 2.48) 0.52 Reference
Education - Intermediate school 0.49 (0.27 - 0.88) 0.02 1.19 (0.68 - 2.06) 0.54 Reference
Education - Secondary school or technical diploma 0.88 (0.49 - 1.58) 0.67 1.00 (0.55 - 1.82) 1.00 Reference
Education - University degree 0.96 (0.45 - 2.06) 0.91 0.90 (0.40 - 2.01) 0.80 Reference
Any sleeping difficulty - Rarely, sometimes, or frequently 2.04 (1.13 - 3.69) 0.02 1.04 (0.58 - 1.88) 0.89 Reference
Any sleeping difficulty - Almost always 1.61 (0.90 - 2.86) 0.11 1.49 (0.87 - 2.55) 0.15 Reference

Age (reference: <40); Education (reference: No schooling/primary school); Body mass index -BMI (per unit increase of 1); Any sleeping Difficulty (reference: Never). Waist Circumference (WC) was not included due to collinearity with BMI.