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 4
Risk factors for abdominal obesity using univariate analysis.
Variable
Rate of abdominal obesity
OR (95% CI)
P value
Gender
Male
0/445
0.0%
123.0 (7.43–2035.00)
<0.0001
Female
24/201
11.9%
Ref
Ref
Physical activity
Light
6/95
6.3%
Ref
Ref
Moderate
12/315
3.8%
1.7 (0.62–4.67)
0.3888
Vigorous
6/236
2.5%
2.6 (0.81–8.23)
0.1102
Smoking
Yes
0/7
0.0%
0.6 (0.03–10.76)
1.0000
No
24/639
3.8%
Ref
Ref
Drinks alcohol
Yes
3/85
3.5%
1.1 (0.310–3.64)
1.0000
No
21/561
3.7%
Ref
Drinks coffee
Yes
6/369
1.6%
4.2 (1.65–10.74)
0.0014
No
18/277
6.5%
Ref
Ref
Age
18–27
21/605
3.5%
2.2 (0.63–7.69)
0.1902
28–37
3/41
7.3%
Marital status
Yes
6/38
15.8%
Ref
Ref
No
18/608
3.0%
6.1 (2.28–16.54)
0.0017
Obesity
Yes
9/12
75.00%
Ref
Ref
No
15/634
2.40%
123.8 (30.41–503.90)
<0.0001
Number of subjects with distortion/number of subjects in each category. Ref refers to reference point.
