Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in urban adults of Benin: Relationship with socio-economic status, urbanisation, and lifestyle patterns

Table 8 Adjusted odds ratio (OR) for CVD risk factors according to lifestyle scores

OLS	Overall obesity*¹		Abdominal obesity**²		Low HDL-cholesterol**³		Hypertension**⁴
	OR (95% CI)	P	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	P
Low (reference)	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Medium	0.35 (0.13–0.90)	0.030	0.24 (0.05–1.12)	0.070	0.98 (0.37–2.60)	0.974	0.68 (0.28–1.65)	0.396
High	0.07 (0.02–0.29)	<0.001	0.18 (0.04–0.80)	0.025	0.60 (0.17–2.12)	0.431	0.19 (0.05–0.68)	0.011

* The model included age, sex, SES and OLS
** The model included age, sex, SES, BMI and OLS
¹Holsmer-Lemshow test: χ² = 7.138; p = 0.522
²Holsmer-Lemshow test: χ² = 6.494; p = 0.592
³Holsmer-Lemshow test: χ² = 5.393; p = 0.715
⁴Holsmer-Lemshow test: χ² = 5.027; p = 0.755
Logistic regression was not performed for diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia because they are almost non-existent in the study sample.

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