Assessment of Risk Factors of Noncommunicable Diseases among Semiurban Population of Kavre District, Nepal

Table 4

Association of co-occurrence of three or more risk factors with sociodemographic variables.

Sociodemographic variables	OR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value
Age
18–24 years	Reference		Reference
25–34 years	5.0 (1.8–14.1)	0.002	4.7 (1.6–13.7)	0.005
35–44 years	7.4 (2.7–19.8)	<0.001	6.6 (2.3–18.5)	<0.001
45–54 years	13.9 (5.1–37.8)	<0.001	10.9 (3.8–31.3)	<0.001
55–64 years	15.3 (5.6–42.0)	<0.001	10.9 (3.7–32.1)	<0.001
Sex
Female	Reference		Reference
Male	3.0 (2.0–4.4)	<0.001	3.9 (2.4–6.3)	<0.001
Educational status
Literate	Reference		Reference
Illiterate	1.4 (0.9–2.1)	0.054	1.7 (1.0–2.9)	0.038
Household income
Richest (20%)	Reference		Reference
Second quintile	0.7 (0.4–1.3)	0.243	0.7 (0.3–1.4)	0.309
Third quintile	0.5 (0.2–0.9)	0.031	0.5 (0.3–1.0)	0.056
Fourth quintile	0.8 (0.4–1.7)	0.606	0.9 (0.4–1.9)	0.767
Poorest (20%)	0.9 (0.5–1.8)	0.969	0.9 (0.5–1.8)	0.813