High Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Urban Sri Lanka: Findings from the Colombo Urban Study

Table 6

Multivariate regression for obesity with sociodemographic factors.

	Estimate	Std. error	value
Intercept	18.83	2.42	7.79	<0.01
Male sex	-1.86	0.45	-4.14	<0.01
Ethnicity—Tamils	-1.99	1.61	-1.23	0.21
Ethnicity—Moors	-0.18	1.43	-0.13	0.89
Fh_ht	1.36	0.42	3.26	<0.01
LDL	0.03	0.02	1.47	0.14
TG	0.01	0.01	2.19	0.02
HBA1C	1.02	0.34	2.99	<0.01
LDL : HBA1C	-0.01	0.01	-2.48	0.01
Ethnicity—Tamils: TG	0.01	0.01	0.98	0.32
Ethnicity—Moors: TG	0.02	0.01	2.21	0.03