Table 5.
Prevalence of overweight or obesity in children of families participated in the second-stage screening
| Variables | Total sample | By parental FINDRISC category | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Both parents 0–11 | At least one parent 12–14 | At least one parent 15–26 | P-value* | ||
| Overweight or obesity in children, n (%) | |||||
| All countries (n = 2231) | 630 (28.2) | 267 (24.5)a,b | 213 (31.4)a | 150 (32.5)b | 0.001 |
| HICs under austerity measures (n = 930) | 309 (33.2) | 126 (28.9)a | 100 (35.1) | 83 (39.7)a | 0.018 |
| LMICs (n = 616) | 175 (28.4) | 73 (24.6) | 64 (32.7) | 38 (30.9) | 0.119 |
| HICs (n = 685) | 146 (21.3) | 68 (19.0) | 49 (24.9) | 29 (22.3) | 0.258 |
*P-values indicate the significance of the differences among parental FINDRISC categories
Figures sharing the same superscript letters differentiate significantly from each other
FINDRISC Finnish Diabetes Risk Score, HICs High-income countries, LMICs Low to middle-income countries