Table 2 Television viewing, birth weight, maternal education and parental overweight in Swedish children and adolescents by sex.
Children | Adolescents | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
TV viewing: > 2 h/day (%) † | 23.9 | 22.5 | 44.8 | 40.5 |
Birth weight (%): * | ||||
< 2.500 g | 2.5 | 5.6 | 0.9 | 5.9 |
2500 g–4000 g | 74.0 | 82.3 | 77.1 | 82.2 |
> 4000 g | 23.6 | 12.0 | 22.1 | 11.8 |
Maternal educational level (%): † | ||||
Below University | 68.0 | 68.1 | 61.2 | 55.8 |
Parental overweight/obesity (%): †‡ | ||||
Only father | 34.2 | 37.1 | 38.9 | 37.0 |
Only mother | 8.2 | 15.4 | 15.9 | 13.8 |
Both father and mother | 17.7 | 16.2 | 19.0 | 18.5 |