Figure 3.

Risk of prespecified childhood diseases in the intermediate-diet and poor-diet clusters as compared to the healthy-diet cluster. Abbreviations: HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; URI, upper respiratory tract infection; LRI, lower respiratory tract infection. Children were classified based on feeding patterns in infancy by using polytomous variable latent class analysis. The definitions of each childhood disease were provided in Supplementary Table S1. Risk differences and their 95% confidence intervals were calculated by a binomial regression model with the log-link function. In addition, adjusted hazard ratios and their 95% confidence intervals were calculated by a Cox proportional hazard model, with adjustment for sex, region at birth, economic status, birthweight, body weight at 4–6 and 9–12 months of age, head circumference at 4–6 months of age, perinatal comorbidities, and comorbidities. Filled squares indicate aHR and black lines indicate 95% CI. Asterisks indicate p < 0.05.