Table 5.
Linear two-level models of the associations between dietary patterns (DP) and anthropometric measurements among adolescent girls from Central Mozambique, the ZANE Study (Estudo do Estado Nutricional e da Dieta em Raparigas Adolescentes na Zambezia), 2010
| BMI-for-age Z-score* (n 479) | Mid-upper arm circumference (cm) (n 544)† | Triceps skinfold (mm) (n 544)† | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | se | P value | β | se | P value | β | se | P value | |
| Fixed part | |||||||||
| Constant | −0·30 | 0·12 | 19·8 | 1·3 | 5·0 | 2·6 | |||
| ‘Urban bread and fats’ DP | 0·17 | 0·04 | <0·001 | 0·5 | 0·1 | <0·001 | 0·9 | 0·2 | <0·001 |
| ‘Rural meat and vegetables’ DP | −0·11 | 0·04 | 0·006 | −0·4 | 0·1 | <0·001 | −0·7 | 0·2 | <0·001 |
| ‘Rural cassava and coconut’ DP | −0·11 | 0·05 | 0·019 | −0·4 | 0·1 | 0·001 | −0·7 | 0·2 | 0·002 |
| Variance estimate | se | Variance estimate | se | Variance estimate | se | ||||
| Random part | |||||||||
| Locality level | 0·04 | 0·02 | 0·29 | 0·14 | 0·86 | 0·55 | |||
| Individual level | 0·61 | 0·04 | 3·45 | 0·22 | 14·4 | 0·92 | |||
*
Pregnant girls excluded from analysis. Adjusted for season and breast-feeding status (yes/no).
†
Adjusted for age, season (January–February/May–June), pregnancy status (yes/no) and breast-feeding status (yes/no).