Table 3

Relationships among gender, ethnicity, place of residence, income and risk factors of T2D and CVD in Jamaican adolescents, 2007 (N=276)

Risk factors	Model p Value	Gender (male)†			Ethnicity (non-Black)†			Place of residence (urban)†			Household income (low)†
Risk factors	Model p Value	OR	95% CI	p Value	OR	95% CI	p Value	OR	95% CI	p Value	OR	95% CI	p Value
High FBG	0.332	2.01	1.03 to 3.93	0.040	0.86	0.37 to 2.0	0.729	0.81	0.42 to 1.6	0.555	0.92	0.53 to 2.21	0.829
High TC	0.036	0.61	0.25 to 1.5	0.281	0.36	0.07 to 1.45	0.141	1.2	0.52 to 2.78	0.674	3.7	1.06 to 12.8	0.039
High BMI	0.100	0.64	0.37 to 1.09	0.101	1.03	0.55 to 1.93	0.917	1.87	1.1 to 3.14	0.018	1.03	0.58 to 1.76	0.955
High WC	0.043	0.56	0.32 to 0.97	0.041	0.88	0.46 to 1.69	0.708	1.9	1.1 to 3.2	0.021	0.79	0.45 to 1.37	0.398
Presence of AN	0.080	0.53	0.32 to 0.87	0.013	0.66	0.36 to 1.21	0.175	0.88	0.54 to 1.44	0.618	0.04	0.56 to 1.59	0.817
Low PA	<0.001	0.36	0.21 to 0.62	<0.001*	1.2	0.66 to 2.25	0.536	0.57	0.35 to 0.95	0.032	1.1	0.66 to 1.98	0.633
Family histories of T2D‡	0.007	0.70	0.43 to 1.1	0.163	2.09	1.13 to 3.9	0.019	1.2	0.78 to 2.08	0.329	0.60	0.35 to 1.02	0.057
Family histories of CVDs‡	0.003	0.53	0.30 to 0.94	0.030	1.68	0.90 to 3.1	0.100	0.77	0.45 to 1.3	0.342	0.51	0.29 to 0.88	0.016
Family histories of obesity‡	0.014	1.05	0.64 to 1.78	0.844	0.62	0.34 to 1.16	0.133	0.54	0.32 to 0.90	0.019	0.49	0.27 to 0.87	0.014

*PA and gender considered significant after controlling for type I error.
†Represents reference groups for the variable.
‡Represents a positive family history of disease.
AN, Acanthosis Nigricans; BMI, body mass index; CVDs, cardiovascular diseases; FBG, fasting blood glucose; PA, physical activity; TC, total cholesterol; T2D, type 2 diabetes; WC, waist circumference.
Note: Owing to limitation of space in table 3, the reference values for each variable were omitted; however, they were all identified previously in table 1.
Numbers in italics represent significance at the 0.05 level.