Table 4 Associations of child’s and parents’ BMI at Age 6.5 years with problematic eating attitudes at age 11.5 years (ChEAT scores ⩾85th percentile) in PROBIT, Belarus

From: Prospective associations of parental smoking, alcohol use, marital status, maternal satisfaction, and parental and childhood body mass index at 6.5 years with later problematic eating attitudes

Exposures a

% ChEAT scores ⩾22.5

Basic OR b

95% CI

Adjusted OR c

95% CI

Child’s BMI, PROBIT II (kg m−2)

 Normal (n=11293)

16.5

1.00 (Ref)

 

1.00 (Ref)

 

 Underweight (n=290)

15.5

0.87

0.62, 1.22

0.84

0.59, 1.20

 Overweight (n=993)

28.5

2.16

1.85, 2.53

2.14

1.82, 2.52

 Obese (n= 275)

40.4

3.80

2.90, 4.97

3.89

2.95, 5.14

 OR per s.d.

 

1.33

1.28, 1.39

1.34

1.29, 1.40

 P-value for trend

 

<0.0001

 

<0.0001

 

Maternal BMI, PROBIT II (kg m−2)

 Normal (n=7949)

17.2

1.00 (Ref)

 

1.00 (Ref)

 

 Underweight (n=75)

17.3

0.97

0.52, 1.80

1.18

0.63, 2.23

 Overweight (n=3265)

18.3

1.10

0.98, 1.23

1.10

0.98, 1.23

 Obese (n=1430)

20.8

1.29

1.11, 1.49

1.29

1.11, 1.50

 OR per s.d.

 

1.09

1.05, 1.14

1.09

1.04, 1.15

 P-value for trend

 

0.0001

 

0.0002

 

Paternal BMI at PROBIT II (kg m−2)

 Normal (n=5461)

17.2

1.00 (Ref)

 

1.00 (Ref)

 

 Overweight (n=5010)

18.4

1.09

0.98, 1.22

1.11

0.99, 1.24

 Obese (n=1133)

20.5

1.28

1.08, 1.51

1.27

1.06, 1.51

 OR per s.d.

 

1.08

1.03, 1.13

1.09

1.03, 1.14

 P-value for trend

 

0.001

 

0.001

 
  1. Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index (kg m−2); ChEAT, Children’s Eating Attitudes Test;34 CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; PROBIT, Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial; Ref, reference group; WHO, World Health Organization.
  2. aCategories of BMI for underweight, overweight and obesity in children were defined by Cole et al.31, 32 and are mapped onto the WHO categories for adults. The WHO definitions were used for adults.
  3. bAll effect-estimates are adjusted for age, sex and clustering by hospital/polyclinic and represent the OR giving the change in odds (95% CI) of having a ChEAT score ⩾22.5 (85th percentile) per s.d. increase in BMI (kg m−2).
  4. cAdjusted for age, sex, location of polyclinic, treatment group, maternal/paternal occupation/education, maternal smoking status from pregnancy to PROBIT II and cluster (polyclinic site).
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