Obesity and socioeconomic disadvantage in midlife female public sector employees: a cohort study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for associations between baseline (Phase 1) body weight status and socioeconomic disadvantage at Phases 1–3 among women, repeated measures analysis (GEE), the Helsinki Health Study, Finland, 2000–2012

	Model 1^a		Model 2^b
Low household net income	Odds ratio	95% CI	Odds ratio	95% CI
Normal weight	1.00	ref.	1.00	ref.
Overweight	1.01	0.91–1.12	1.10	0.97–1.24
Obese	1.23	1.07–1.41	1.21	1.04–1.41
Number of subjects	6809		6807
QICC*	18,349.35		11,836.38
Income below poverty
Normal weight	1.00	ref.	1.00	ref.
Overweight	1.03	0.90–1.17	1.06	0.94–1.21
Obese	1.23	1.05–1.44	1.20	1.02–1.4
Number of subjects	6809		6807
QICC	12,114.43		10,799.45
Frequent economic difficulties
Normal weight	1.00	ref.	1.00	ref.
Overweight	1.21	1.08–1.35	1.23	1.10–1.37
Obese	1.74	1.52–1.99	1.71	1.50–1.96
Number of subjects	6836.00		6832.00
QICC	17,112.79		16,468.48
Low household wealth
Normal weight	1.00	ref.	1.00	ref.
Overweight	1.24	1.08–1.43	1.25	1.09–1.44
Obese	1.90	1.59–2.26	1.90	1.59–2.26
Number of subjects	5747		5743
QICC	9268.02		9157.90
Low personal income
Normal weight	1.00	ref.
Overweight	1.17	1.03–1.33
Obese	1.22	1.03–1.44
Number of subjects	4623
QICC	10,130.52

CI Confidence interval
Weight category defined by body mass index (normal weight BMI 18.50–24.99, overweight BMI 25.00–29.99 and obese BMI >30.00)
^*Corrected Quasi Likelihood under Independence Model Criterion (in smaller-is-better form)
^aAdjusted for age and educational level
^bAdditionally adjusted for marital status as a time variant covariate

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