Leisure time activities in adolescence in the presence of susceptibility genes for obesity: risk or resilience against overweight in adulthood? The HUNT study

Table 2 Associations between the index for cultural activities at baseline and the z-scores of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) eleven years later as adults

Girls n = 603; Boys n = 520. Excluded: overweight and underweight, pregnant, disabled physically or psychologically in daily activities.
Model 1 Unadjusted effect of exposure on the outcome measure at follow-up
Model 2. Adjusted pubertal development at baseline, physical activity change from adolescence to adulthood, and socio-economic status at follow-up.
Cultural activities: reading a book you liked, listening to music or played an instrument longer than 15 min, watching TV or a video, and doing homework or school tasks longer than an hour. We assigned values from 1 to 4 for each answer-category regarding frequency (Not once (1), Once (2), 2–3 times (3), 4 times or more (4) in the last 7 days) and made a continuous variable by adding the scores for each activity (range 4–16).
Employed GEE linear type model. (N: 1123 normal-weight adolescents).

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