BMI | |||||||||
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Characteristics | Normal | Underweight | Overweight | Obese | P-value1 | ||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Health literacy (quartiles) | <0.0001 | ||||||||
Lowest 25 % (0–21) | 19,580 | 45.47 | 4,954 | 11.50 | 11,051 | 25.66 | 7,477 | 17.36 | |
25th to 50th percentile (22–26) | 22,971 | 48.01 | 5,276 | 11.03 | 12,110 | 25.31 | 7,491 | 15.66 | |
50th to 75th percentile (27–29) | 22,190 | 49.45 | 4,847 | 10.80 | 11,403 | 25.41 | 6,434 | 14.34 | |
Highest 25 % (30–32) | 13,360 | 50.56 | 2,938 | 11.12 | 6,859 | 25.96 | 3,268 | 12.37 | |
Sex | <0.0001 | ||||||||
Girl | 42,204 | 53.25 | 10,299 | 13.00 | 18,957 | 23.92 | 7,790 | 9.83 | |
Boy | 35,897 | 43.27 | 7,716 | 9.30 | 22,466 | 27.08 | 16,880 | 20.35 | |
Ethnicity | <0.0001 | ||||||||
Hakka, Taiwanese, and Chinese | 49,357 | 48.59 | 11,156 | 10.98 | 25,761 | 25.36 | 15,301 | 15.06 | |
Indigenous | 2751 | 44.97 | 467 | 7.63 | 1,777 | 29.05 | 1,123 | 18.36 | |
Immigrants | 1440 | 45.58 | 364 | 11.52 | 816 | 25.83 | 539 | 17.06 | |
Others/Unknown/Uncertain | 24,553 | 47.81 | 6,028 | 11.74 | 13,069 | 25.45 | 7,707 | 15.01 | |
Self-rated health status | <0.0001 | ||||||||
Bad or very bad | 2351 | 24.15 | 1,127 | 11.58 | 2,486 | 25.53 | 3,772 | 38.74 | |
Normal | 27,917 | 44.98 | 7,028 | 11.32 | 16,493 | 26.57 | 10,631 | 17.13 | |
Good | 24,839 | 54.30 | 4,901 | 10.71 | 11,162 | 24.40 | 4,845 | 10.59 | |
Very Good | 22,994 | 51.49 | 4,959 | 11.10 | 11,282 | 25.26 | 5,422 | 12.14 | |
Healthy behaviors (Regular physical activity, Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake) | <0.0001 | ||||||||
Regular physical activity and no SSB intake | 32,432 | 50.65 | 6,988 | 10.91 | 16,050 | 25.06 | 8,564 | 13.37 | |
Had only one of the healthy behaviors (either regular physical activity or no SSB intake) | 37,591 | 46.70 | 9,080 | 11.28 | 20,867 | 25.92 | 12,962 | 16.10 | |
Had no regular physical activity and consumed SSB | 8078 | 45.70 | 1,947 | 11.02 | 4,506 | 25.49 | 3,144 | 17.79 |