No Chronic Condition
n = 1843
Diabetes
n =61
Asthma
n=372
Pdf=3
Health Behaviors and Weight:
BMI (adjusted mean) 26.7a 28.7b 27.1a,b 0.035
Health Behaviors (adjusted mean):
Fruit & Vegetable Intake (servings/day)
Family Meals (times/week)
Sugar-sweetened beverages (servings/day)
Breakfast (times/week)
Fast Food (times/week)
Total Physical Activity (hours/week)
3.79
4.22
0.84
3.655
1.80
4.16a
4.29
4.31
0.84
3.88
2.13
3.38b
3.81
4.12
0.86
3.83
2.01
4.52a
0.437
0.834
0.977
0.365
0.183
0.035
Disordered Eating Behaviors (adjusted percent):
Unhealthy
Extreme
Binge
42.9a
16.2
11.0a
50.3b
14.1
19.6b
47.9a,b
14.6
13.5a
0.023
0.675
0.044
Psychological:
Depressive Symptoms (adjusted mean) 18.5a 19.8b 18.9a,b 0.048
Self-esteem (adjusted mean) 18.4a 17.1b 18.3a 0.008
Body Satisfaction (adjusted mean) 41.0a 38.5b 41.4a 0.043
Social:
Have Significant Other (adjusted percent) 68.3 63.5 72.0 0.252
Have Children (adjusted percent) 3.81 2.92 3.87 0.217
Educational Attainment in Years (adjusted mean) 14.0 13.3 14.0 0.448
Teasing (adjusted percent):
Weight
Appearance
44.2
22.7a
44.8
37.2b
47.9
27.0a
0.423
0.038
abc Superscripts (a, b, c) indicate results of post hoc comparisons of adjusted means or percents. Means or percents with different superscript letters are significantly different at p < 0.01.
*All analyses were adjusted for race/ethnicity, SES, age, and BMI.
**Fast food means and p-values were obtained using a square root-transformed variable.
Table 3: Associations between chronic health conditions and young adult health and psychosocial variables*.