Table 3.

Association of the identified dietary patterns with overweight and obesity among Lebanese children 2–5 years old (n = 525)

Tertiles of pattern scores	Odds of overweight/obesity
	Fast food and sweets pattern	Traditional Lebanese pattern
1	1	1
2	0.86 (0.32–2.32)	0.70 (0.25–1.96)
3	0.82 (0.27–2.53)	0.33 (0.11–0.97)

Model adjusted for child age, child sex, mother’s BMI, mother’s education, father’s education, father’s employment, presence of helper in the house, type of school attended, eating the same meal with the family and eating any mean at TV

Numbers in bold are significant at p < 0.05