Table 4 Odds ratios of nutritional status of rural and urban ever-married women by background characteristics: 2011 BDHS

From: Malnutrition and non-communicable diseases among Bangladeshi women: an urban–rural comparison

Background characteristics

Anemia

Diabetes

Hypertension

Place of residence (RC rural)

 Urban

0.93 (0.80–1.09)

1.05 (0.79–1.40)

1.03(0.84–1.27)

Geographical region (RC Sylhet)

 Barisal

1.25 (0.98–1.59)*

1.41 (0.91–2.20)

1.41 (1.03–1.93)**

 Chittagong

1.01 (0.81–1.26)

1.19 (0.79–1.80)

1.09 (0.80–1.49)

 Dhaka

1.28 (1.03–1.58)**

0.91 (0.61–1.35)

1.40 (1.04–1.89)**

 Khulna

0.98 (0.79–1.23)

0.57 (0.36–0.91)**

1.55 (1.13–2.11)***

 Rajshahi

1.21 (0.97–1.52)*

1.14 (0.74–1.76)

1.31 (0.96–1.78)*

 Rangpur

1.41 (1.13–1.77)***

0.89 (0.54–1.48)

1.67 (1.19–2.34)***

Household wealth status (RC Poor)

 Middle

0.82 (0.72–0.95)***

1.33 (0.97–1.82)*

1.08 (0.89–1.30)

 Rich

0.63 (0.52–0.77)***

2.66 (1.83–3.88)***

1.45 (1.15–1.84)***

Nutrition (RC underweight)

 Normal

0.72 (0.63–0.84)***

1.61 (1.19–2.17)***

1.52 (1.25–1.83)***

 Overweight

0.53 (0.43–0.65)***

2.83 (1.99–4.02)***

2.70 (2.09–3.50)***

  1. RC stands for reference category. Figures in parentheses indicate 95% confidence interval of odds ratio; ***P⩽0.01,**0.01<P⩽0.05,*0.05<P⩽0.10.
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