Table 4.
Wish for children’s body size (BMI categories determined per cut-off points as proposed by Cole et al. [23])
| Children’s own wish |
Mother’s wish for children |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | control | MOC | MNC | |
| (n = 111)a | (n = 149)a | (n = 111)b | (n = 149)a | |
| Normal, n (%) | 93 (84) | 131 (88) | 91 (82) | 137 (92) |
| Overweight, n (%) | 20 (18) | 12 (8) | 20 (18) | 12 (8) |
a
p = 0.3677, non-significant (Fisher’s exact test).
a
p = 0.0133, significant (Fisher’s exact test). MOC = Mothers of overweight children; MNC = mothers of non-overweight children.