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Table 3 Detection rates and risk ratios of adverse health outcomes in the first grade in primary school for children who were ever or never breastfed

From: Breastfeeding is associated with reduced risks of central obesity and hypertension in young school-aged children: a large, population-based study

Outcomes

Never breastfed

Ever breastfed

χ²

P-value

Never breastfed

Ever breastfed

n (%)

n (%)

Reference

Adjusted RR

95% CI

P-value

Overweight or obesity

658 (21.08)

1038 (19.39)

3.51

0.06

1.00

0.94

0.86, 1.03

0.20

Obesity

211 (6.76)

327 (6.11)

1.41

0.24

0.95

0.80, 1.14

0.61

Central obesity defined by the 90th waist circumference percentile

449 (14.40)

696 (13.01)

3.26

0.07

0.91

0.78, 1.06

0.24

Central obesity defined by WHTR ≥ 0.5

313 (10.04)

488 (9.13)

1.94

0.16

0.95

0.78, 1.16

0.64

Elevated systolic blood pressure or stage 1 & 2 hypertension

767 (24.63)

1146 (21.44)

11.41

< 0.01

0.91

0.84, 0.99

0.04

Stage 1 & 2 hypertension - systolic blood pressure

504 (16.18)

742 (13.88)

8.29

< 0.01

0.92

0.82, 1.03

0.15

Elevated diastolic blood pressure or stage 1 & 2 hypertension

732 (23.51)

1158 (21.67)

3.83

0.05

0.92

0.85, 1.01

0.07

Stage 1 & 2 hypertension - diastolic blood pressure

348 (11.18)

510 (9.54)

5.75

0.02

0.84

0.73, 0.96

0.01

  1. CI: confidence interval; RR: risk ratio; WHTR: waist-to-height ratio
  2. Full model adjusted for sex, age at the health check, birth weight, delivery mode, maternal age, and parental education levels. For the outcomes of central obesity and blood pressure, we also adjusted the BMI value obtained at the children’s first school health check