TABLE 5.

Coefficients from multivariate models relating standardized conditional weight scores to adult fat and fat-free mass (SD units)^a

	Males					Females
	Fat mass		Fat-free mass			Fat mass		Fat-free mass
	β	95%CI	β	95%CI	p-valueb	β	95%CI	β	95%CI	p-valueb
Guatemala
Birth	0.12	(−0.07, 0.30)	0.43	(0.27, 0.59)	0.0001	0.27	(0.06, 0.47)	0.37	(0.18, 0.56)	0.1
12m	0.17	(−0.02, 0.37)	0.26	(0.09, 0.42)	0.30	0.15	(−0.06, 0.36)	0.33	(0.14, 0.52)	0.007
24m	0.09	(−0.09, 0.27)	0.28	(0.13, 0.43)	0.01	0.17	(−0.04, 0.38)	0.24	(0.05, 0.43)	0.28
Mid-childhood	0.15	(−0.05, 0.34)	0.21	(0.05, 0.38)	0.40	0.10	(−0.13, 0.32)	0.16	(−0.05, 0.36)	0.37
India
Birth	0.13	(0.06, 0.21)	0.20	(0.13, 0.27)	0.02	0.22	(0.13, 0.31)	0.28	(0.20, 0.36)	0.04
12m	0.27	(0.20, 0.35)	0.40	(0.33, 0.47)	0.0001	0.28	(0.19, 0.37)	0.36	(0.28, 0.45)	0.006
24m	0.20	(0.13, 0.27)	0.23	(0.15, 0.30)	0.35	0.13	(0.04, 0.22)	0.23	(0.15, 0.31)	0.0005
Mid-childhood	0.24	(0.17, 0.32)	0.26	(0.19, 0.33)	0.59	0.17	(0.08, 0.26)	0.20	(0.11, 0.28)	0.40
Philippines
Birth	0.08	(0.03, 0.13)	0.21	(0.16, 0.26)	0.0001	0.17	(0.12, 0.23)	0.28	(0.22, 0.33)	0.0002
12m	0.39	(0.33, 0.44)	0.49	(0.44, 0.54)	0.0005	0.30	(0.24, 0.36)	0.34	(0.28, 0.40)	0.16
24m	0.13	(0.07, 0.18)	0.22	(0.17, 0.27)	0.002	0.09	(0.02, 0.15)	0.13	(0.08, 0.19)	0.11
Mid-childhoodc	0.43	(0.37, 0.48)	0.48	(0.43, 0.52)	0.09	0.49	(0.43, 0.55)	0.49	(0.44, 0.54)	0.91
South Africa
Birth	0.21	(0.07, 0.36)	0.31	(0.18, 0.43)	0.31	0.07	(−0.07, 0.21)	0.39	(0.28, 0.50)	0.0001
12m	0.21	(0.05, 0.36)	0.35	(0.22, 0.49)	0.12	0.43	(0.28, 0.57)	0.46	(0.34, 0.57)	0.74
24m	0.10	(−0.05, 0.24)	0.13	(0.01, 0.26)	0.70	0.07	(−0.07, 0.21)	0.29	(0.18, 0.40)	0.006
Mid-childhoodc	0.26	(0.12, 0.41)	0.44	(0.32, 0.56)	0.05	0.36	(0.21, 0.51)	0.39	(0.27, 0.50)	0.74
Brazil
Birth	0.17	(0.09, 0.26)	0.26	(0.18, 0.34)	0.003
12m	0.27	(0.18, 0.35)	0.29	(0.20, 0.37)	0.49
24m	0.26	(0.18, 0.35)	0.31	(0.22, 0.39)	0.15
Mid-childhood	0.39	(0.30, 0.47)	0.35	(0.27to 0.43)	0.25

^aadjusted for age and in females also for parity

^bsignificance of difference in regression coefficients predicting fat-free and fat mass evaluated using multivariate regression

^cinterpolated (see Methods)