Research Article

Maternal Body Mass Index Is Strongly Associated with Children -Scores for Height and BMI

Table 5

Logistic regression analysis of maternal BMI (independent variable) with child HAZ -score, WAZ -score, WHA -score, and BMIZ -score.

ModelDependent variableIndependent variableSEBSig.

1HAZConstant−5.9730.456−13.095
(BMI)1.3060.2016.5100.0000.709
1WAZConstant−3.2691.053−3.103
(BMI)0.6420.4631.3850.1850.051
1WHZConstant−0.3071.217−0.2530.804
(BMI)1.4940.5352.7920.0130.286
1BMIZConstant−5.6750.430−13.185
(BMI)1.3570.1897.1680.0000.748

value < 0.001; value < 0.05.