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

Table 5 Risk of general obesity at 6 and 9 years of age relative to the presence of general obesity and/or abdominal obesity at 4 years of age

	General obesity^a at 6 years				General obesity^a at 9 years
	N	RR^c	95% CI	p-value	RR^c	95% CI	p-value
Obesity at 4 years
No general obesity and no abdominal obesity	1,741	1.00			1.00
General obesity but no abdominal obesity	32	12.37	(8.92–17.17)	< 0,001	5.65	(4.29–7.43)	< 0,001
Abdominal obesity but no general obesity	64	5.19	(3.19–8.44)	< 0,001	3.15	(2.17–4.57)	< 0,001
Both general obesity and abdominal obesity^b	65	16.10	(12.41–20.87)	< 0,001	6.54	(5.40–7.91)	< 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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