Table 2 Prevalence (%) of health outcomes until age 8 and prevalence (%) of health outcomes at age 8 according to maternal educational level.
Age | Maternal educational levela | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Low | Intermediate | High | |
Eczema | 15.3 | 16.8 | 17.6 | 18.2 | 15.6 | 15.9 | 14.9 | 16.4 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 15.9 |
Asthma symptoms | - | - | 23.6 | 19.6 | 18.3 | 15.4 | 13.1 | 13.8 | 15.9 | 14.0 | 12.2 |
Poor health index | - | - | - | 27.0 | - | 23.5 | - | 26.0 | 29.3 | 26.1 | 23.5 |
Freq. resp. infectionsb | 14.6 | 15.0 | 12.1 | 10.6 | 10.7 | 8.4 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
Overweight c | - | - | 7.4 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 11.6 | 9.6 |
Obesity | - | - | 0.9 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.2 |