Research Article
High Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Urban Sri Lanka: Findings from the Colombo Urban Study
Table 6
Multivariate regression for obesity with sociodemographic factors.
| | Estimate | Std. error | value | |
| Intercept | 18.83 | 2.42 | 7.79 | <0.01 | Male sex | -1.86 | 0.45 | -4.14 | <0.01 | Ethnicity—Tamils | -1.99 | 1.61 | -1.23 | 0.21 | Ethnicity—Moors | -0.18 | 1.43 | -0.13 | 0.89 | Fh_ht | 1.36 | 0.42 | 3.26 | <0.01 | LDL | 0.03 | 0.02 | 1.47 | 0.14 | TG | 0.01 | 0.01 | 2.19 | 0.02 | HBA1C | 1.02 | 0.34 | 2.99 | <0.01 | LDL : HBA1C | -0.01 | 0.01 | -2.48 | 0.01 | Ethnicity—Tamils: TG | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.98 | 0.32 | Ethnicity—Moors: TG | 0.02 | 0.01 | 2.21 | 0.03 |
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