The three television indicators were also significantly associated with increased likelihood of being overweight (including obese).
In contrast, the results for sugar propensity were robust using all three television indicators.
The television indicators were significantly related to increased odds for overweight (Table 3), with only minor variation in magnitude of the association in girls and boys.
All three television indicators tended to be more strongly increasing across quartiles for sugar propensity ratios, compared with corresponding quartiles for dietary fat.
All television indicators were significantly associated with increased risk of overweight, with odds ratios ranging from 1.21 to 1.30, in fully adjusted models.
In the first analysis, logistic models were used to calculate prevalence odds ratios for overweight (including obesity) as a function of the three television indicators, with one model adjusting for survey country (dummy variables), parental education (dichotomous), age (continuous) and sex.
While unit shipments of televisions, a key indicator, have been up, the amount of revenue generated by sales fell 3%.
It has been shown that using single-item self-reports or selecting only television viewing as an indicator of sedentary behaviour does not estimate the broad range of sedentary behaviours in which children participate [ 12, 13].
For instance, associations are often weak or non-existent when using sitting in an occupational context as a marker of sedentary time [ 41, 42], while detrimental associations with abnormal glucose metabolism [ 43], insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia [ 44] and metabolic clustering [ 17, 37, 44] are widely reported when using self-reported television viewing as an indicator of sitting.
The relative socio-economic status of a household was determined by possession of the following indicators, radio, television and electricity.
