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. 2023 Jan 3;94(1):280–289. doi: 10.1038/s41390-022-02455-4

Table 3.

The Bayley-III scores and the global score of HINE of 2-year-old children by maternal diet quality measured by IDQ in early and late pregnancy.

Early pregnancy Late Pregnancy
n Good diet quality
adjusted mean (SE)
Poor diet quality
adjusted mean (SE)
Adjusted mean difference (good-poor) / OR (95% CI) Adjusted pa or p n Good diet adjusted quality
mean (SE)
Poor diet adjusted quality
mean (SE)
Adjusted mean difference (good-poor) / OR (95% CI) Adjusted pa or p
Bayley-III
 Composite cognitionb 107/119 110 (2.71) 112 (2.64) −1.43 (−4.87; 2.00) 0.41 124/99 112 (2.65) 110 (2.65) 2.49 (−0.92; 5.90) 0.15
 Composite languageb 104/109 107 (3.21) 106 (3.11) 1.18 (−2.98; 5.34) 0.58 117/90 108 (3.13) 104 (3.15) 3.92 (−0.25; 8.10) 0.07
 Expressive languageb 102/11 10.1 (0.67) 9.48 (0.65) 0.60 (−0.27; 1.46) 0.18 119/91 10.1 (0.65) 9.25 (0.66) 0.87 (0.004; 1.73) 0.049
 Receptive languageb 102/109 12.3 (0.58) 12.5 (0.56) −0.17 (−0.92; 0.57) 0.65 120/90 12.5 (0.57) 12.2 (0.57) 0.33 (−0.42; 1.08) 0.39
 Composite motorb 83/90 110 (3.30) 112 (3.05) −2.08 (−5.88; 1.72) 0.28 92/79 111 (3.24) 111 (3.13) 0.23 (−3.65; 4.11) 0.91
 Fine motorb 120/90 12.8 (0.67) 13.0 (0.62) −0.22 (−0.99; 0.55) 0.57 92/79 13.0 (0.66) 12.7 (0.64) 0.32 (−0.48; 1.12) 0.43
 Gross motorb 87/123 11.4 (0.58) 11.8 (055) −0.39 (−1.13; 0.36) 0.31 133/101 11.6 (0.57) 11.7 (0.56) −0.05 (−0.81; 0.71) 0.90
HINE
 Global scorec,* 115/124 76.0 (75.0; 77.0) 75.5 (74.0; 76.5) 0.27 133/102 76.0 (74.8; 76.5) 76.0 (74.0; 77.0) 0.86
 Suboptimal/optimal scored,e 105/121

18 (17.1)

87 (82.9)

19 (15.7)

102 (84.3)

0.84 (0.39; 1.81) 0.66 125/100

20 (16.0)

105 (84.0)

16 (16.0)

84 (84.0)

0.93 (0.42; 2.05) 0.86

Early pregnancy, mean 13.9, SD 2.08 gestational weeks; late pregnancy mean 35.1, SD 0.96 gestational weeks. Optimal score of HINE ≥ 74, suboptimal score of HINE < 74.

CI Confidence interval, HINE Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination, OR Odds ratio.

The differences in n are due to missing values.

*Mann–Whitney U test for the Global score of HINE. Due to skewed distribution, adjusted analysis was conducted with categorical variable.

aGeneral linear model. Adjusted for maternal education, employee status, marital status, pre-pregnancy BMI, pre-pregnancy smoking status, primiparity, child’s sex, and intervention groups.

Data are expressed as badjusted mean (SE), cmedian (interquartile range) or dfrequency (%).

eBinary logistic regression model for categorical variable (suboptimal score of HINE, poor diet quality as a reference category).