Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Odds ratios of ordered logistic regression on overweight and obesity in selected African countries

	(Overweight or obese) vs Not overweight/obese		Obese vs (overweight or not overweight/obese)
	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Time lap (Continuous)	1.05**	[1.04; 1.06]		^aSame
Household wealth (Ref: Poorest)
Middle	1.97 **	[1.80; 2.16 ]		Same
Richest	3.20 **	[2.92; 3.51 ]		Same
Education (Ref: None)
Primary	1.40 **	[1.27; 1.53 ]		Same
Secondary+	1.59 **	[1.44; 1.76 ]		Same
Working status (Ref: Not working)
Working	1.13 **	[1.05; 1.22 ]		Same
Age (Ref: 20-24)
15-19	0.61 **	[0.53; 0.70 ]	0.50 **	[0.43; 0.59 ]
25-29	1.52 **	[1.36; 1.69 ]		Same
30-34	2.49 **	[2.19; 2.82 ]		Same
35+	3.28 **	[2.87; 3.74 ]	3.57 **	[3.12; 4.08 ]
Marital status (Ref: Current married)
Never married	0.62 **	[0.55; 0.70 ]		Same
Other	0.91 ^†	[0.82; 1.02 ]		Same
Parity (Ref: <2)
2-3	1.22 **	[1.10; 1.36 ]		Same
4-5	1.26 **	[1.10; 1.43 ]		Same
6+	1.22 **	[1.05; 1.41 ]		Same
Country (Ref: Burkina)
Ghana	1.40 **	[1.24; 1.58 ]		Same
Kenya	1.54 **	[1.37; 1.74 ]		Same
Malawi	0.79 **	[0.69; 0.91 ]		Same
Niger	1.49 **	[1.32; 1.67 ]		Same
Senegal	1.21 **	[1.07; 1.36 ]		Same
Tanzania	1.19 **	[1.05; 1.34 ]		Same

^†p < .10;*p < .05; **p < .01
^aEstimates for (Overweight or obese) vs Not overweight/obese are the same as for Obese vs (overweight or not overweight/obese).

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