Table 3. Crude and adjusted analyses of the association of anthropometric measures of children and accelerated growth during infancy with carotid intima-media thickness in the cohort participants at the follow-up in 2012.

Variable		Crude analysis	Adjusted analysis 1
	N	β (95% CI)	β (95% CI)
Weight-for-height z-score at age 2			(n = 2348)
<–1	151	Ref (0)	Ref (0)
–1 to 0.99	1809	0.62 (–2.56 to 3.80)	1.12 (2.36 to 4.60)
≥1	961	3.29 (0.01 to 6.57)	2.63 (–1.00 to 6.25)
Height-for-age z-score at age 2			(n = 2348)
<–1	1105	Ref (0)	Ref (0)
–1 to 0.99	1590	–0.19 (–1.62 to 1.24)	0.35 (–1.24 to 1.93)
≥1	227	1.46 (–1.21 to 4.12)	2.19 (–0.72 to 5.10)
Weight-for-age z-score at age 2			(n = 2348)
<–1	402	Ref (0)	Ref (0)
–1 to 0.99	1937	0.30 (–1.72 to 2.32)	0.89 (–1.37 to 3.15)
≥1	582	4.08 (1.70 to 6.46)	3.62 (0.86 to 6.38)
Weight-for-height z-score at age 4			(n = 2300)
<–1	138	Ref (0)	Ref (0)
–1 to 0.99	1875	0.72 (–2.51 to 3.94)	1.75 (–1.68 to 5.18)
≥1	847	4.54 (1.18 to 7.89)	3.83 (0.24 to 7.42)
Height-for-age z-score at age 4			(n = 2301)
<–1	1046	Ref (0)	Ref (0)
–1 to 0.99	1626	0.24 (–1.20 to 1.68)	0.38 (–1.19 to 1.96)
≥1	189	4.10 (1.24 to 6. 96)	4.19 (1.14 to 7.25)
Weight-for-age z-score at age 4			(n = 2302)
<–1	458	Ref (0)	Ref (0)
–1 to 0.99	1961	0.76 (–1.14 to 2.66)	0.86 (–1.22 to 2.94)
≥1	443	5.03 (2.61 to 7.46)	4.28 (1.59 to 6.97)
			(n = 2175)
Conditional height gain at age 0–2	2189	0.30 (–045 to 1.04)	*0.86 (–0.09 to 1.80)
			(n = 2175)
Conditional height gain at age 2–4	2189	0.63 (–0.11 to 1.37)	*0.43 (–0.39 to 1.25)
			(n = 2175)
Conditional weight gain at age 0–2	2189	0.69 (–0.06 to 1.44)	*0.67 (–0.06 to 1.41)
			(n = 2175)
Conditional weight gain at age 2–4	2189	1.51 (0.74 to 2.28)	*1.26 (0.49 to 2.02)

The 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort, Brazil.

Adjusted for confounding variables 1: family income at birth; maternal skin color; maternal age at child birth; maternal education; maternal smoking; birth weight according to age z-score; sex and skin color

*Adjusted for 1 + height at 30 years