Table 3.

Top quartile of the Elderly Dietary Index (EDI) and daily fruit and vegetable intake according to childhood socio-economic (SE) measures (Odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals)

	EDI quartiles*	Daily fruit and vegetable intake†
			Unadjusted	Adjusted‡			Unadjusted	Adjusted‡
	n	% Q4	OR	95 % CI	P	OR	95 % CI	P	n	%	OR	95 % CI	P	OR	95 % CI	P
Childhood social class
Non-manual	1062	33·0	1			1			1081	22·7	1			1
Manual	2492	21·9	0·57	0·49, 0·67	< 0·001	0·73	0·61, 0·88	0·001	2593	16·3	0·66	0·56, 0·79	< 0·001	0·80	0·66, 0·97	0·03
Childhood household amenities
Bathroom
Yes	1906	27·2	1			1			1960	19·1	1			1
No	1820	22·9	0·79	0·68, 0·92	0·002	0·95	0·81, 1·12	0·57	1895	17·0	0·87	0·74, 1·02	0·09	0·95	0·80, 1·14	0·61
Hot water supply
Yes	1955	27·7	1			1			2013	20·0	1		0·001	1
No	1768	22·3	0·75	0·64, 0·87	< 0·001	0·94	0·80, 1·12	0·51	1838	16·0	0·76	0·64, 0·90	0·001	0·85	0·71, 1·02	0·08
Family car ownership
Yes	617	31·9	1			1			630	19·8	1			1
No	3110	23·8	0·66	0·55, 0·80	< 0·001	0·81	0·66, 1·00	0·05	3227	17·7	0·87	0·70, 1·08	0·20	1·01	0·80, 1·27	0·95
Adverse childhood SE score§
0	356	33·7	1			1			361	19·1	1			1
1	570	32·8	0·96	0·73, 1·27	< 0·001	1·11	0·82, 1·51	0·03	578	24·7	1·39	1·01, 1·92	< 0·001	1·42	1·01, 1·99	0·12
2	845	22·6	0·57	0·44, 0·75		0·78	0·57, 1·05		885	16·4	0·83	0·60, 1·14		1·01	0·72, 1·42
3	479	25·7	0·68	0·50, 0·92		0·93	0·67, 1·29		491	21·4	1·15	0·82, 1·62		1·33	0·92, 1·91
4	1281	21·1	0·53	0·41, 0·68		0·78	0·58, 1·05		1333	15·0	0·75	0·55, 1·01		0·93	0·66, 1·29

^*Data for the EDI available for 3924 participants. OR for quartile 4 v. quartiles 1–3.

^†Data for fruit and vegetable intake available for 4067 participants.

^‡Adjusted for age, energy intake, smoking status, physical activity, alcohol intake, BMI and adult social class.

^§Score includes childhood manual social class, no bathroom, no hot water supply and no family car ownership.