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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 14.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Jan 28;18(6):1146–1152. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.506

Table 2.

Association of Restraint Scale scores with BMI and weight change among 1,587 individual twin participants

BMIa
Weight changeb
Meanc kg/m2 95% CI P valued Meanc pounds 95% CI P valued
Restraint Scale Score category <0.001 <0.001
 High (>16) 27.9 (27.4–28.4) 6.9 (5.4–8.4)
 Intermediate (12≤16) 25.5 (25.2–25.8) 4.9 (4.1–5.6)
 Low (≤11) 23.0 (22.7–23.3) 2.8 (1.8–3.8)

CI, confidence interval.

a

Adjusted for age, gender, education, race, smoking history, and physical activity.

b

Adjusted for age, gender, education, race, smoking history, initial BMI, and time elapsed between self-reported weights.

c

Means are adjusted least squared means.

d

P values are from linear regression using general estimating equations with robust s.e.