Poor Perception of Body Weight Category amongst the Overweight and Obese with Chronic Hepatitis C: A Target for Intervention

Table 4

Logistic regression for predictors of BMI category underestimation.

Characteristic	Univariate	Multivariate
	OR (95%  CI)	OR (95%  CI)
BMI
Normal	Ref	Ref
Overweight	2.57 (1.41−4.69)	2.42 (1.29−4.55)
Obese	12.81 (4.69−29.30)	14.19 (5.71−35.28)
Gender (Male)	2.28 (1.35−3.83)	2.84 (1.52−5.30)
Area of residence
Urban	Ref	—
Rural	1.77 (1.05−3.01)
Years of education	0.92 (0.86−0.98)	0.94 (0.86−1.01)
Employment
Employed	Ref	Ref
Unemployed	1.83 (1.12−3.00)	1.59 (0.87−2.89)
Any metabolic disease	2.15 (1.27−3.62)	1.50 (0.82−2.74)
Diabetes	3.23 (1.39−7.56)	—
Hypertension	1.8 (1.01−3.23)	—

CI: confidence interval.