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Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2023 Dec 22;207:111070. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2023.111070

Table 2.

Overall and sex-stratified associations between eating behaviors and estimated body fat percentage.

Unadjusted Adjusted
n (observations) β (95% CI) P-value n (observations) β (95% CI) P-value
Disordered eating 257 (732) 0.40 (0.16, 0.65) 0.001 254 (698) 0.49 (0.24, 0.73) 0.0001
 Male 129 (368) 0.58 (0.26, 0.90) 0.0005 127 (345) 0.53 (0.20, 0.85) 0.0014
 Female 128 (364) 0.21 (−0.08, 0.50) 0.16 127 (353) 0.32 (0.05, 0.60) 0.02
Dietary restraint 152 (152) 2.37 (0.94, 3.80) 0.0013 139 (139) 1.11 (0.29, 1.92) 0.0081
 Male 75 (75) 1.00 (−0.01, 2.01) 0.052 69 (69) 1.07 (0.11, 2.04) 0.03
 Female 77 (77) 1.46 (0.27, 2.65) 0.017 70 (70) 0.94 (−0.37, 2.26) 0.16
External eating 244 (389) −0.22 (−0.54, 0.10) 0.17 238 (372) −0.19 (−0.47, 0.10) 0.20
 Male 122 (190) −0.27 (−0.61, 0.07) 0.11 117 (177) −0.24 (−0.56, 0.08) 0.14
 Female 122 (199) −0.03 (−0.48, 0.42) 0.89 121 (195) −0.12 (−0.55, 0.31) 0.57

Note: Beta coefficients of eating behaviors were standardized to 1 SD and should be interpreted as such (i.e., a 1 SD difference in eating behavior corresponds to a difference in estimated body fat percentage).