Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the early (born 1939–1959) and late (born 1983–2001) cohorts.
The early cohort | The late cohort | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prevalence of obesity | Prevalence of obesity | |||||
N total | N BMI ≥ 30.0 | % BMI ≥ 30.0 (95% CI) | N total | N BMI ≥ 30.0 | % BMI ≥ 30.0 (95% CI) | |
Quartile categorized intelligence test score | ||||||
ITS score ≤ 31 | 68,333 | 871 | 1.27 (1.19; 1.36) | 41,091 | 4007 | 9.75 (9.46; 10.04) |
ITS score 32–40 | 62,755 | 529 | 0.84 (0.77; 0.91) | 46,005 | 3090 | 6.72 (6.49; 6.95) |
ITS score 41–48 | 63,110 | 428 | 0.68 (0.61; 0.74) | 35,268 | 1987 | 5.63 (5.39; 5.87) |
ITS score ≥ 49 | 64,684 | 347 | 0.54 (0.48; 0.59) | 39,886 | 1749 | 4.38 (4.18; 4.59) |
Total | 258,882 | 2175 | 0.84 (0.80; 0.88) | 162,250 | 10,833 | 6.68 (6.56; 6.80) |
Geographical district | ||||||
Metropolitan | 204,785 | 1751 | 0.86 (0.82; 0.89) | 120,026 | 7071 | 5.89 (5.76; 6.02) |
Provincial | 52,288 | 399 | 0.76 (0.69; 0.84) | 42,224 | 3762 | 8.91 (8.64; 9.18) |
Missing | 1813 | – | – | – | – | – |
