. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 16.

Published in final edited form as: Food Nutr Bull. 2015 Jun;36(2):111–119. doi: 10.1177/0379572115586400

Table 3.

Association between serum zinc and dietary zinc parameters, stratified by zinc status, among Mexican children at two years of age

Dietary parameter	All participants (N=333)		Zinc replete (N=276)		Zinc deficient (N=57)
	β (95% CI)	p-value	β (95% CI)	p-value	β (95% CI)	p-value
Zn (mg/d)	0.22 (−0.54, 0.98)	0.58	0.03 (−0.69, 0.77)	0.92	0.15 (−0.55, 0.86)	0.66
Zn (mg/d) adjusted for phytic acid intake (mg/d)	0.95 (−0.029, 1.94)	0.06	0.74 (−0.20, 1.68)	0.12	0.11 (−0.88, 1.10)	0.82
Phytate:zinc molar ratio	−0.69 (−1.58, 0.19)	0.13	−0.74 (−1.64, 0.15)	0.1	0.04 (−0.61, 0.70)	0.9
Bioavailable zinc according to WHO^a	1.4 (−0.26, 3.08)	0.1	1.14 (−0.42, 2.72)	0.15	0.54 (−1.25, 2.35)	0.54
Bioavailable zinc according to IZiNCG^b	0.68 (−1.77, 3.14)	0.58	0.11 (−2.25, 2.49)	0.92	0.49 (−1.80, 2.79)	0.66

World Health Organization (WHO) criterion [28]

International Zinc Nutrition Consultative Group (IZiNCG) criterion [18]