Association of sexual maturation with excess body weight and height in children and adolescents

BMC Pediatrics

Table 3 Estimated prevalence ratios from uni- and multivariate Poisson regression models for the prediction of excess body weight according to the sexual maturation of school children aged 8–14 years from Florianópolis, South of Brazil, 2007

Sexual maturation classification	Males			Females
Sexual maturation classification	Crude prevalence ratio (95% CI)*	Adjusted prevalence ratio (95% CI)*^§	p^§	Crude prevalence ratio (95% CI)*	Adjusted prevalence ratio (95% CI)*^§	p^§
Early	0.99 (0.75;1.32)	0.98 (0.73; 1.32)	0.891	1.63 (1.23; 2.16)	1.70 (1.24; 2.33)	0.004
Normal	1	1	-	1	1	-
Late	0.71 (0.55; 0.93)	0.78 (0.59; 1.02)	0.067	0.69 (0.51; 0.95)	0.57 (0.37; 0.87)	0.014

*95% confidence interval;
^§Poisson regression model, adjusted for maternal BMI, active commuting, age, birth weight, school type and interaction between maternal BMI and school type.

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