Risk Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Japanese-Brazilians

Table 1

Risk of overweight and obesity related to eutrophy in sociodemographic variables of Japanese-Brazilian individuals. Maringá-PR, Brazil, 2016.

BMI–Brazil
Variables	Eutrophic (%) 286	Overweight (%) 200	Odds ratio	CI (95%)	value	With obesity (%) 56	Odds ratio	CI (95%)	value
Gender
Female	180 (62.94)	88 (44.00)		—		20 (35.71)		—
Male	106 (37.06)	112 (56.00)	2.161	1.49–3.12	<0.0001	36 (64.29)	3.057	1.68–5.55	<0.0001
Generation
Isei	10 (3.50)	3 (1.50)		—		0		—
Nisei	128 (44.76)	98 (49.00)	2.55	0.68–9.52	0.163	16 (28.57)	>999	<0.001–999	0.957
Sansei	121 (42.31)	90 (45.00)	2.47	0.66–9.26	0.177	36 (64.29)	>999	<0.001–999	0.953
Yonsei	27 (9.44)	9 (4.50)	1.11	0.24–4.95	0.890	4 (7.14)	>999	<0.001–999	0.956
Age range
1 to 29 years	82 (28.67)	31 (15.50)		—		8 (14.29)		—
30 to 39 years	30 (10.49)	19 (9.50)	1.67	0.82–3.40	0.15	16 (28.57)	5.46	2.12–14.08	<0.0001
40 to 49 years	40 (13.99)	46 (23.00)	3.04	1.68–5.49	<0.001	15 (26.79)	3.84	1.50–9.81	0.005
50 to 59 years	35 (12.24)	40 (20.00)	3.02	1.63–5.58	<0.001	17 (30.36)	4.97	1.96–12.60	0.001
60 or +	99 (34.62)	64 (32.00)	1.71	1.01–2.87	0.04	0	0.00	0.000	0.99
Financial status
A	77 (26.92)	66 (33.00)		—		12 (21.43)		—
B1	86 (30.07)	60 (30.00)	0.81	0.51–1.29	0.386	19 (33.93)	1.417	0.64–3.10	0.383
B2	98 (34.27)	63 (31.50)	0.75	0.47–1.18	0.216	19 (33.93)	1.244	0.56–2.71	0.584
C1	16 (5.59)	10 (5.00)	0.72	0.31–1.71	0.469	4 (7.14)	1.604	0.45–5.61	0.459
C2-D	9 (3.15)	1 (0.50)	0.13	0.01–1.05	0.05	2 (3.57)	1.426	0.27–7.41	0.673
Education
Illiterate	8 (2.80)	1 (0.50)	0.15	0.01–1.23	3.116	3 (5.36)	2.054	0.50–8.37	0.315
Elementary/incomplete middle	27 (9.44)	19 (9.50)	0.85	0.44–1.62	0.236	0	<0.001	<0.001–999	0.968
Middle/incomplete high school	32 (11.19)	19 (9.50)	0.71	0.38–1.34	1.057	3 (5.36)	0.513	0.14–1.83	0.304
High school/incomplete college	104 (36.36)	66 (33.00)	0.76	0.50–1.15	1.580	29 (51.79)	1.52	0.82–2.84	0.181
College	115 (40.21)	95 (47.50)		—		21 (37.50)		—
Marital status
With a partner	156 (54.55)	140 (70.00)	1.94	1.32–2.84	0.001	36 (64.29)	1.500	0.82–2.71	0.18
Without a partner	130 (45.45)	60 (30.00)		—		20 (35.71)		—
Professional status
Retired	61 (21.3)	39 (19.50)	0.84	0.51–1.39	0.50	2 (3.60)	0.23	0.51–1.05	0.05
Self-employed	53 (18.5)	56 (28.00)	1.39	0.86–2.25	0.17	27 (48.20)	3.60	1.74–7.45	0.001
Home maker	26 (9.1)	15 (7.5)	0.76	0.37–1.53	0.44	7 (12.50)	1.90	0.69–5.20	0.20
Working	99 (34.6)	75 (37.5)		—		14 (25.00)		—
Student	47 (16.4)	15 (7.5)	0.42	0.21–0.81	0.01	6 (10.70)	0.90	0.32–2.49	0.84