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Table 1 Regression coefficients of linear regression model to explain BMI according to age, birth cohort, socio economic status, and smoking status, separately for men and women

From: Gender and socioeconomic disparities in BMI trajectories in the Seychelles: a cohort analysis based on serial population-based surveys

 

Men

(n = 1585, adj. R2 = 0.12)

Women

(n = 1818; adj. R2 = 0.11)

 

Coefficient

P

Coefficient

P

Intercept*

23.61

 

27.99

 

Current smoking

-1.55

< 0.001

-2.46

< 0.001

Middle SES (vs. low)

1.46

< 0.001

-0.88

0.004

High SES (vs. low)

1.69

< 0.001

-2.09

< 0.001

Age (10 years)

1.65

< 0.001

2.57

< 0.001

Age^2 (10 years)

-0.32

< 0.001

-0.56

< 0.001

Cohort (10 years)

1.24

< 0.001

1.51

< 0.001

  1. *The intercept refers to a non-smoking person aged 45 born in 1944 and with a low SES.
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