Table 2.

Results of mixed effect single covariate models on repeated BMI measures. Each model includes one covariate, main effect of time and time squared, and an interaction term between the covariate and time

VARIABLES	MAIN EFFECT			INTERACTION WITH TIME (SLOPE)
	PARAMETER ESTIMAT E	SE ESTIMATE	P -VALUE	PARAMETER ESTIMATE	SE ESTIMATE	P -VALUE
Age	−0.089	0.022	<0.001	−0.011	0.002	<0.001
Female	1.414	0.236	<0.001	0.016	0.026	0.546
Educated	0.520	0.317	0.101	0.037	0.033	0.266
Alcohol
current	0.033	0.212	0.878	−0.007	0.036	0.854
past	−0.120	0.205	0.559	−0.053	0.033	0.106
never	0	–	–	0	–	–
Smoking
current	−1.046	0.235	<0.001	−0.032	0.036	0.383
past	−0.762	0.209	<0.001	−0.027	0.027	0.326
never	0	–	–	0	–	–
History of
cancer	−0.029	0.394	0.942	0.084	0.090	0.351
hypertension	0.340	0.205	0.097	−0.017	0.034	0.607
diabetes	−0.733	0.364	0.044	−0.083	0.068	0.226
heart attack	0.450	0.232	0.052	0.022	0.030	0.466
stroke	−0.100	0.406	0.805	−0.104	0.086	0.225
depression	−0.058	0.193	0.765	0.018	0.030	0.553

SE = standard error.