Lifestyle Risk Factors of General and Abdominal Obesity in Students of the School of Medicine and Health Science of the University of Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Table 3

Risk factors for general obesity using univariate analysis.

Variable	𝑛/𝑁^∗	Rate of obesity	OR (95% CI)	P value
Gender
Male	3/445	0.7%	6.9 (1.85–25.80)	0.0021
Female	9/201	4.5%	Ref	Ref
Physical activity
Light	6/37	16.2%	Ref	Ref
Moderate	3/196	1.5%	12.45 (2.96–52.41)	0.0006
Vigorous	3/212	1.4%	13.48 (3.21–56.72)	0.0004
Age
18–27	9/605	1.5%	5.4 (1.39–20.68)	0.0329
28–37	3/41	7.3%	Ref	Ref
Smoking
Yes	0/7	0.0%	Ref	Ref
No	12/639	1.9%	3.3 (0.18–61.91)	1
Alcohol consumption
Yes	0/85	0.0%	Ref	Ref
No	12/561	2.1%	0.3 (0.02–4.39)	0.3825
Drinks coffee
Yes	3/369	0.8%	4.1 (1.10–15.28)	0.0357
No	9/277	3.2%	Ref	Ref
Marital status
Yes	3/38	7.9%	Ref	Ref
No	9/608	1.5%	5.7 (1.48–22.02)	0.0286
Abdominal obesity
Yes	9/27	33.3%	Ref	Ref
No	3/619	0.5%	102.7 (25.61–11.60)	<0.0001

∗Number of subjects with general obesity/number of subjects in each category. Ref refers to reference point.