Table 6 Odds ratios of overweight and obesity in males – multinomial logistic regression analysis

Age

1.449 (1.280, 1.641)

1.647 (1.391, 1.950)

< 0.0001

Ethnicity

0.0023

 Moor vs Sinhalese

1.684 (1.067, 2.658)

2.608 (1.492, 4.560)

 Tamil vs Sinhalese

1.513 (0.990, 2.312)

1.726 (0.981, 3.036

Family income

0.0164

 Group 5 vs group 1

3.305 (1.105, 9.890)

2.906 (0.703, 12.107)

 Group 4 vs group 1

2.742 (1.023, 7.348)

2.278 (0.424, 8.321)

 Group 3 vs group 1

2.356 (0.882, 6.290)

1.441 (0.394, 5.266)

 Group 2 vs group 1

1.739 (0.608, 4.975)

1.990 (0.506, 7.826)

Physical activity level

1.138 (0.983, 1.317)

0.898 (0.744, 1.084)

0.0122

 High vs low

1.302 (0.965, 1.788)

0.836 (0.564, 1.238)

 Medium vs low

1.108 (0.739, 1.682)

1.244 (0.788, 2.044)