Late-onset or chronic overweight/obesity predicts low self-esteem in early adolescence: a longitudinal cohort study

Table 3 Associations of Primary 1 characteristics with overweight/obesity trajectories (N = 48,558)

Characteristics	Late-onset	Chronic	Early-onset
Sex
Female	Reference	Reference	Reference
Male	2.40 (2.24, 2.58)***	1.80 (1.69, 1.91)***	0.90 (0.81, 0.99)***
Parental educational level
Tertiary	Reference	Reference	Reference
Secondary	1.17 (1.03, 1.35)*	1.17 (1.04, 1.32)**	0.82 (0.69, 0.98)*
Primary/below	1.19 (1.02, 1.40)*	1.18 (1.02, 1.35)**	0.72 (0.58, 0.90)**
Parental occupation
Managerial/professional	Reference	Reference	Reference
Clerical/service industry	0.98 (0.88, 1.09)	0.98 (0.90, 1.07)	1.00 (0.87, 1.16)
Manual job	0.94 (0.85, 1.04)	0.94 (0.87, 1.03)	1.03 (0.89, 1.19)
Unemployed	1.17 (0.94, 1.45)	0.75 (0.60, 0.93)**	0.78 (0.54, 1.14)
Cohort
1995/96	Reference	Reference	Reference
1996/97	0.98 (0.91, 1.04)	1.06 (1.00, 1.13)*	1.20 (1.09, 1.32)*

Results are presented as adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence interval) from multinomial logistic regression, with the never overweight/obesity trajectory taken as the reference category. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.

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