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. 2022 Jun 20;22:1229. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13592-0

Table 1.

Sample featuring based on obesity in students in the age group 12–17, from Belo Horizonte City, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, 2013 -2014

Variable Total Obese Non-obese Non-adjusted OR * CI 95% P-value
% % %
Sex (n = 2.530)
 Male 50.32 50.08 50.34 Ref
 Female 49.68 49.92 49.66 1.04 0.95 1.15 0.352
Age group (n = 2.530)
  < 15 years 51.21 63.82 50.23 Ref
  >  = 15 years 48.79 36.18 49.77 0.67 0.6 0.76  < 0.001*
Self-referred skin color (n = 2.473)
 White 33.8 24.51 34.49 Ref
 Black or brown 62.53 71.19 61.89 2.21 1.95 2.5  < 0.001*
 Asian 2.31 3.18 2.25 1.21 0.78 1.87 0.389
 Indigenous 1.36 1.12 1.37 1.22 0.71 2.09 0.454
Socioeconomic score (n = 2.473)
 High 29.52 37.44 28.94 Ref
 Medium 69.2 61.24 69.79 0.73 0.65 0.81  < 0.001*
 Low 1.27 1.32 1.28 0.75 0.49 1.15 0.193*
Lives with parents (n = 2.530)
 Both parents 56.65 61.04 56.31 Ref
 Only with the mother or the father 38.81 33.02 39.26 0.78 0.7 0.87  < 0.001*
 No 4.54 5.94 4.43 2.01 1.67 2.42  < 0.001*
How often the legal guardian has supper with the adolescent (n = 2,530)
 Never or almost never 13.23 17.41 12.9 Ref
 Sometimes 24.14 26.77 23.93 0.78 0.67 0.9  < 0.01*
 Almost every day 21.04 17.47 21.31 0.48 0.41 0.57  < 0.001*
 Every day 41.59 38.35 41.86 0.54 0.47 0.62  < 0.001*
Breakfast-having frequency (n = 2,530)
 Does not have it 17.48 20.1 17.28 Ref
 Sometimes 27.31 33.76 26.81 0.89 0.78 1.02 0.124*
Almost every day 12.59 11.17 12.7 0.56 0.46 0.67  < 0.001*
 Every day 42.62 34.97 43.21 0.48 0.42 0.55  < 0.001*
Exercising (n = 2,530)
 Inactive (0 min/week) 30.84 34.71 30.54 Ref
 Insufficiently active (1 – 299 min/week) 27.18 27.79 27.13 0.85 0.75 0.96 0.01*
 Active (≥ 300 min/week) 41.98 37.50 42.33 0.86 0.77 0.97 0.014*

Weighed sample rate. * p < 0.20