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Table 4 Prevalence of overweight and obesity, by breakfast consumption

From: Association of breakfast intake with obesity, dietary and physical activity behavior among urban school-aged adolescents in Delhi, India: results of a cross-sectional study

Breakfast

N (%)

Overweight and Obese† % (95% CI)

  

Overall

School Type

Gender

   

Private

Government

Boys

Girls

Never

129

22.9

37.8

7.3

26.0

18.5

 

(7.1)

(15.5-30.2)

(24.6-50.9)

(2.1-12.6)

(16.5-35.6)

(8.3-28.8)

Sometimes

417

15.2

27.6

2.9

16.5

14.4

 

(23.0)

(9.9-20.6)

(17.6-37.7)

(0.0-6.0)

(9.4-23.6)

(7.9-20.8)

Daily

1268

14.6

25.6

4.0

15.4

14.3

 

(69.9)

(10.0-19.2)

(16.5-34.7)

(2.3-5.7)

(9.4-21.5)

(9.3-19.3)

F test value

 

3.25

2.45

1.07

3.16

0.35

P value

 

0.039

0.087

0.345

0.043

0.702

  1. † Adjusted prevalence were obtained using mixed effect regression model. Gender, School type, age (when not segregated) and grade were adjusted and school was treated as random effect.
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