The only way to be sure that nothing slips through the net and protect the company is to gain a holistic
view of all legal activity — one that enables in - house counsel to
view the
full picture of company
exposure and take proactive steps to manage it, mitigating issues before they arise.
A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the
full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV
exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television
viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).