Table 1. Relative frequency and comparison of anthropometric characteristics of 104 eutrophic and obese children and adolescents treated at the Preventive Medicine Service in the city of Aracaju-SE, Brazil.
Characteristics | % classification | Odds Ratio | 95% CI | p-valuea | ||
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Obese | Eutrophic | |||||
Sex | Masculine | 57 | 54 | 1.1 | 0.5–2.6 | 0.794 |
Feminine | 43 | 46 | ||||
Declared color | Black | 86 | 45 | 7.4 | 2.2–31.6 | <0.001 |
White | 14 | 55 | ||||
Obese father | Yes | 75 | 39 | 4.6 | 1.8–11.8 | <0.001 |
Não | 25 | 61 | ||||
Obese mother | Yes | 80 | 36 | 7.2 | 2.7–20.2 | <0.001 |
No | 20 | 64 | ||||
Hypertensive father | Yes | 84 | 49 | 5.5 | 1.4–30.9 | 0.005 |
No | 16 | 51 | ||||
Hypertensive mother | Yes | 68 | 51 | 2.0 | 0.7–5.7 | 0.132 |
No | 32 | 49 | ||||
Type of birth | Cesarean | 62 | 42 | 2.2 | 0.8–5.7 | 0.064 |
Normal | 38 | 58 | ||||
Early weaning(<6 months) | Yes | 94 | 23 | 49.6 | 12.2–274.7 | <0.001 |
No | 6 | 77 |
Chi-square test with Odds Ratio and 95% confidence interval (95% CI)
No case for the control variable.