Tracking and risk of abdominal and general obesity in children between 4 and 9 years of age. The Longitudinal Childhood Obesity Study (ELOIN)

Table 4 Risk of general and abdominal obesity at 9 years of age relative to the presence of obesity at 4 and 6 years of age

	General obesity^a at 9 years				Abdominal obesity^b at 9 years
	N	RR^c	95% CI	p-value	N	RR^c	95% CI	p-value
Obesity at 4 and/or 6 years
Stable without obesity at 4 and 6 years	1,706	1.00			1,696	1.00
Obesity at 4 but not at 6 years	23	4.61	(2.76–7.72)	< 0,001	46	4.14	(2.65–6.48)	< 0,001
No obesity at 4 but obesity at 6 years	99	9.36	(7.72–11.35)	< 0,001	77	9.56	(7.79–11.74)	< 0,001
Obesity at both 4 and 6 years	74	10.27	(8.52–12.37)	< 0,001	83	9.88	(8.07–12.11)	< 0,001

^aGeneral obesity: BMI > 2 SD according to the WHO-2007 standardized tables¹³
^bAbdominal obesity: ≥ 90^th percentile of waist circumference according to the consensus of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)²¹
^cRelative risk estimated by Poisson regression and adjusted by age, sex, and household affluence
95% CI 95% Confidence interval

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