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Table 6 Association between demographics, BMI, nutritional status and inadequate micronutrient intake

From: Are dietary intake and nutritional status influenced by gender? The pattern of dietary intake in Lao PDR: a developing country

 

Adolescents

Adult

Pregnant women

Lactating women

 

Inadequate

OR (95%-CI)

P-values

Inadequate

OR (95%-CI)

P-value

Inadequate

OR (95%-CI)

P-value

Inadequate

OR (95%-CI)

P-value

Inadequate

OR (95%-CI)

P-value

Inadequate

OR (95%-CI)

P-value

 

Boys, Freq (%)

  

Girls, Freq (%)

  

Men, Freq (%)

  

Women, Freq (%)

  

Subject, Freq (%)

  

Subject, Freq (%)

  

Residence

- Rural

74 (93.7)

REF

 

64 (85.3)

REF

0.179

83 (91.2)

REF

 

96 (87.3)

REF

 

95 (92.2)

REF

 

99 (93.4)

REF

 

- Urban

21 (75.0)

0.20 (0.06–0.71)

0.012

23 (74.2)

0.94 (0.18–1.38)

29 (87.9)

0.70 (0.20–2.50)

0.581

34 (81.0)

0.62 (0.24–1.61)

0.325

33 (89.2)

0.70 (0.20–2.46)

0.572

37 (92.5)

0.87 (0.21–3.55)

0.848

Season

     

0.759

            

- Rainy

41 (82.0)

REF

 

47 (81.0)

REF

54 (85.7)

REF

 

61 (79.2)

REF

 

61 (92.4)

REF

 

68 (94.4)

REF

 

- Dry

54 (94.7)

3.95 (1.01–15.52)

0.049

40 (83.3)

1.17 (0.43–3.19)

58 (95.1)

3.22 (0.83–12.53)

0.091

69 (92.0)

3.02 (1.11–8.20)

0.03

67 (90.5)

0.79 (0.24–2.60)

0.692

68 (91.9)

0.67 (0.18–2.47)

0.544

Region

- Northern-Lowland

40 (97.6)

REF

 

26 (86.7)

REF

 

40 (97.6)

REF

 

54 (91.5)

REF

 

45 (97.8)

REF

 

47 (92.2)

REF

 

- Central-SH

26 (83.9)

0.13 (0.01–1.18)

0.07

26 (76.5)

0.50 (0.13–1.87)

0.303

40 (90.9)

0.25 (0.03–2.34)

0.224

39 (84.8)

0.52 (0.15–1.75)

0.287

44 (95.7)

0.49 (0.04–5.59)

0.565

45 (93.8)

1.28 (0.27–6.03)

0.758

- Mekong Corridor

29 (82.9)

0.21 (0.01–1.06)

0.056

35 (83.3)

0.77 (0.20–2.91)

0.699

32 (82.1)

0.11 (0.01–0.98)

0.048

37 (78.7)

0.34 (0.11–1.08)

0.068

39 (81.3)

0.10 (0.01–0.79)

0.03

44 (93.6)

1.25 (0.26–5.90)

0.78

BMI

- Underweight

10 (100.0)

NA

0.999

2 (110.0)

NA

0.999

4 (100.0)

NA

0.999

11 (84.6)

0.86 (0.16–4.63)

0.863

2 (100.0)

NA

0.999

11 (100.0)

NA

0.999

- Normal weight

79 (91.9)

REF

 

76 (81.7)

REF

 

53 (89.8)

REF

 

51 (86.4)

REF

 

40 (90.9)

REF

 

73 (94.8)

REF

 

- Overweight

0 (0.0)

0.0 (0.0–0.0)

0.999

5 (71.4)

0.56 (0.10–3.13)

0.508

23 (88.5)

0.87 (0.20–3.77)

0.85

23 (82.1)

0.72 (0.21–2.45)

0.6

37 (97.4)

3.70 (0.40–34.63)

0.252

24 (92.3)

0.66 (0.11–3.82)

0.64

- Obesity

6 (66.7)

0.18 (0.04–0.87)

0.033

4 (100.0)

NA

0.999

32 (91.4)

1.21 (0.28–5.17)

0.799

45 (86.5)

1.01 (0.34–3.00)

0.988

49 (87.5)

0.70 (0.19–2.56)

0.59

28 (87.5)

0.38 (0.09–1.64)

0.196

  1. Inadequate micronutrient adequacy as < 4 adequate micronutrient intakes (out of 8 in total). Reference category = inadequate micronutrient adequacy, defined as < 4 adequate micronutrient intakes.
  2. NA Not applicable, REF Reference category, REF Reference category, OR Odd Ratio
  3. P-value = Level of significance
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