Assessing Factors Related to Waist Circumference and Obesity: Application of a Latent Variable Model

Table 2

Estimates, standard errors, and values of the association between factors and waist circumference and obesity obtained from latent variable model for Iranian adults.

Variables	Waist circumference		value	Obesity			value
	Estimate	SE		Estimate	SE	SN
Age
20–29
30–39	4.25	0.32		0.31	0.04	0.62
40–49	6.79	0.33	<0.001	0.42	0.04	0.66	<0.001
50–59	7.51	0.33		0.32	0.04	0.63
60+	6.80	0.39		0.19	0.05	0.58
Gender
Female	0.75	0.21	<0.001	0.47	0.02	0.68
Male							<0.001
PR
Urban	2.94	0.19	<0.001	0.25	0.02	0.41	<0.001
Rural
PA
Low	0.84	0.22	<0.001	0.060	0.02	0.52	0.02
Moderate	0.24	0.70	0.07	0.007	0.03	0.50	0.79
Heavy
Smoking
Smoker
Nonsmoker	3.10	0.28	<0.001	0.27	0.04	0.61	<0.001
SBP
Normal
High	2.16	0.29	<0.001	0.12	0.03	0.55	<0.001
DBP
Normal
High	2.82	0.28	<0.001	0.27	0.03	0.61	<0.001
CHOL
Normal
High	3.66	0.19	<0.001	0.28	0.02	0.61	<0.001
FBG
Normal
High	2.00	0.41	<0.001	0.09	0.04	0.54	0.03
Diabetes
Yes	3.11	0.41	<0.001	0.16	0.04	0.44	<0.001
No
FHD
Yes	1.97	0.23	<0.001	0.19	0.03	0.43	<0.001
No

Standard normal coefficient.
Comparator group.