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Clinical Study

Social Factors in Childhood and Adulthood Associated with Adult Obesity in African American and White Women

Table 3

Simple and multiple logistic regression.


	Simple Logistic Regression			MLR-Std model + childhood socioeconomic variables*			MLR-Std model + adult socioeconomic variables^#			MLR-final model^X

	(1)			(2)			(3)			(4)
Obese	OR	95% C.I.		OR	95% C.I.		OR	95% C.I.		OR	95% C.I.

Age	50.974	0.040	64927	99.328	0.125	79006	26.367	0.122	5678	60.326	0.050	72421
Age*Age	0.939	0.835	1.056	0.928	0.831	1.036	0.948	0.867	1.035	0.936	0.833	1.052
African American	1.068	0.249	4.579	1.216	0.635	2.326	0.962	0.524	1.764	1.227	0.556	2.704
Married	2.575	0.721	9.191	1.973	1.246	3.124	2.156	1.413	3.288	2.175	1.304	3.627
Underweight at age 7	0.288	0.065	1.283	0.276	0.064	1.191	0.165	0.040	0.683	0.288	0.064	1.294
At risk for overweight at age 7	2.832	1.524	5.262	2.515	1.363	4.639	4.055	2.420	6.794	2.841	1.527	5.286
Overweight at age 7	12.039	4.824	30.043	13.343	5.496	32.396	12.326	5.888	25.803	12.100	4.873	30.046
Number of children	0.678	0.427	1.078	0.833	0.666	1.043	0.895	0.747	1.073	0.796	0.629	1.006
Age at first child’s birth	0.969	0.911	1.031	0.969	0.915	1.026	0.968	0.923	1.015	0.969	0.911	1.031
Years of education	0.967	0.859	1.090	0.964	0.869	1.069	0.935	0.849	1.029	0.966	0.858	1.087
Home ownership in adulthood	0.417	0.206	0.844	0.477	0.254	0.896	0.515	0.311	0.854	0.430	0.214	0.866
>90% African American Neighborhood in Childhood	0.926	0.575	1.493	1.032	0.642	1.660	—	—	—	0.919	0.570	1.482
>90% African American Neighborhood in adulthood	0.993	0.630	1.564	—	—	—	1.060	0.738	1.522	0.998	0.634	1.571
Poor neighborhood in childhood (>20% poverty)	0.971	0.625	1.510	0.956	0.633	1.443	—	—	—	0.984	0.637	1.522
Poor neighborhood in adulthood (>20% poverty)	1.089	0.590	2.011	—	—	—	1.217	0.726	2.039	1.089	0.593	2.002
Home ownership in childhood (by parents)	1.212	0.609	2.411	0.967	0.482	1.942	—	—	—	1.187	0.597	2.361
Married X African American	0.825	0.210	3.242	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Married X number of children	1.201	0.758	1.902	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	–

	574			640			800			574

*Controlled for standard model (age, race, marital status, childhood weight status, age at first child’s birth, education, and homeownership in adulthood)+ childhood SES variables (as a child: predominantly African American (>90%) neighborhood, poor neighborhood (>20% poverty), and homeownership by parents); ^#controlled for standard model (age, race, marital status, childhood weight status, age at first child’s birth, education, homeownership in childhood) + Adult SES (as an adult: African American (>90%) neighborhood, poor neighborhood (>20% poverty)); ^XControlled for Standard Model (age, race, marital status, childhood weight status, age at first child’s birth, education, and homeownership in childhood); childhood SES variables (as a child: predominantly African American (>90%) neighborhood, poor neighborhood (>20% poverty), and homeownership by parents); adult SES (as an adult: African American (>90%) neighborhood, poor neighborhood (>20% poverty)).