Table 5 Association between BMI, WC, WHR, and WHtR status and upper gastrointestinal diseases.

From: Prevalence and determinants of obesity and its association with upper gastrointestinal diseases in people aged 40–69 years in Yangzhong, southeast China

Obesity indicators

Upper gastrointestinal diseases

Gastric diseases

Esophageal diseases

Precancerous diseases (n = 2828)

Precancerous lesions (n = 575)

Cancers (n = 46)

Precancerous diseases (n = 2978)

Precancerous lesions (n = 171)

Cancers (n = 33)

Precancerous diseases (n = 120)

Precancerous lesions (n = 417)

Cancers (n = 13)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

BMI

 Underweight/normal weight

Ref

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 Overweight/obesity

0.889 (0.801–0.987)a

0.890 (0.738–1.074)

2.103 (1.078–4.101)a

0.855 (0.772–0.946)b

0.819 (0.596–1.127)

2.844 (1.192–6.785)a

1.638 (1.105–2.429)a

0.959 (0.779–1.181)

1.151 (0.368–3.599)

WC

 Normal

Ref

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Ref

Ref

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 Central obesity

0.926 (0.832–1.030)

1.099 (0.903–1.338)

1.825 (0.970–3.434)

0.892 (0.804–0.990)a

1.116 (0.804–1.551)

2.167 (1.004–4.679)a

1.956 (1.329–2.879)c

1.109 (0.891–1.380)

1.131 (0.350–3.654)

WHR

 Normal

Ref

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Ref

Ref

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 Central obesity

1.089 (0.956–1.240)

0.983 (0.773–1.251)

2.363 (0.831–6.716)

1.066 (0.939–1.210)

0.876 (0.596–1.287)

2.156 (0.638–7.285)

1.248 (0.767–2.030)

1.002 (0.761–1.319)

3.227 (0.407–25.570)

WHtR

 Normal

Ref

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Ref

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 Central obesity

0.958 (0.860–1.067)

0.946 (0.777–1.151)

2.233 (1.056–4.718)a

0.921 (0.829–1.023)

0.951 (0.684–1.321)

2.997 (1.124–7.995)a

2.281 (1.459–3.566)c

0.939 (0.756–1.167)

1.429 (0.421–4.855)

  1. Regressions were adjusted for gender, age, marital status, residence, education, average annual household income, smoking, drinking, tea drinking, intake of sufficient vegetable, sufficient fruit, scalding diet, pickled diet, leftovers diet, fried diet, irregular diet, spicy diet, eating too fast, indoor air pollution, missing teeth, diet taste, physical activity, family history of cancer, family history of common chronic disease and Helicobacter pylori.
  2. BMI body mass index, WC waist circumference, WHR waist-to-hip ratio, WHtR waist-to-height ratio, AOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval, Ref reference category.
  3. aP < 0.05. bP < 0.01. cP < 0.001.