Table 2.

Crude and multivariate adjusted^a correlates of first trimester Alternate Healthy Eating Index for Pregnancy (AHEI-P) score for 1,777 women participating in Project Viva

Characteristic	Subjects		AHEI-P Score by Characteristic	Regression Estimate (95% CIc) of AHEI-P Score on Each Characteristic
	n	%	Mean ± SDb	Unadjusted	Multivariate adjusteda
Prepregnancy body mass index			61.4±10.3	−1.3 (−1.7, −0.8) per 5 kg/m2	−0.9 (−1.3, −0.4) per 5 kg/m2
<25	1,143	64	59.8±9.6
25–<30	381	21	57.9±10.2
≥30	249	14
Age (y)				1.5 (1.0, 2.0) per 5 y	1.3 (0.7, 1.8) per 5 y
<25	131	7	55.6±9.5
25–<35	1,132	64	60.7±10.1
≥35	514	29	61.6±10.4
Parity				−1.5 (−2.1, −0.8) per child	−1.5 (−2.2, −0.8) per child
0	873	49	61.5±10.2
1	631	36	60.1±10.2
≥2	273	15	58.6±10.1
Race/Ethnicity
Black/African American	219	12	59.4±10.7	−1.6 (−3.1, −0.1)	1.3 (−0.2, 2.8)
Other/more than one race	283	16	59.6±10.7	−1.4 (−2.7, −0.1)	0.1 (−1.2, 1.4)
White	1,275	72	61.0±10.0	0.0d	0.0d
Highest grade completed
≤ High school diploma	167	9	55.1±9.8	−7.1 (−8.7, −5.5)	−5.2 (−7.0, −3.5)
Some college/tech school	377	21	57.6±10.0	−4.6 (−5.7, −3.4)	−3.4 (−2.2, −4.6)
College graduate	1,233	69	62.2±9.9	0.0d	0.0d

^aAdjusted for all characteristics simultaneously.

^bSD=standard deviation.

^cCI=confidence interval.

^dReference category.