Sources of Dietary Fiber and the Association of Fiber Intake with Childhood Obesity Risk (in 2–18 Year Olds) and Diabetes Risk of Adolescents 12–18 Year Olds: NHANES 2003–2006

Table 3

Odds ratio (OR) for disease risk factors of body mass index (BMI) for children aged 2–18 and fasting blood glucose for children aged 12–18 by 2-day average intake tertiles of total dietary fiber density for plausible energy reporters controlling for age, gender, ethnicity and income.

	Medium tertile			Highest tertile
	OR	95% CI	P > chisq	OR	95% CI	P > chisq
Disease risk factor
Overweight/obese by body mass  index for 2–18 year old children^1	0.83	(0.69, 0.99)	0.043	0.79	(0.63, 0.98)	0.031
Overweight/obese by body mass  index for 2–11 year old children^1	0.87	(0.69, 1.10)	0.224	0.87	(0.64, 1.18)	0.365
Overweight/obese by body mass  index for 12–18 year old children^1	0.84	(0.61, 1.16)	0.274	0.75	(0.56, 1.00)	0.043
High fasting glucose for 12–18 year  old children^2	0.68	(0.54, 0.85)	<0.001	0.75	(0.55, 1.02)	0.070

¹For age 2–18, body mass index is above 85th percentile.
²Fasting blood glucose level is more than 126 mg/dL.