Clinical Study
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) | — |
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CI: confidence interval.
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