Table 1.
Baseline Dietary Characteristics by Age. Shown as mean (standard deviation) and p values indicate significance difference between age.
| Overall (n = 75) | 2 years (n = 26) | 3 years (n = 21) | 4 years (n = 11) | 5 years (n = 14) | 6 years (n= 3) | p-value | |
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| Daily total energy (kcal) intake | 1462 (329) | 1344 (281) | 1355 (336) | 1539 (272) | 1686 (218) | 1899 (476) | 0.0006 |
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| % kcal from fat | 35.3 (6.1) | 35.3 (6.8) | 36.9 (5.4) | 34.9 (4.7) | 34.5 (6.4) | 31.3 (7.7) | 0.5545 |
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| % kcal from protein | 12.7 (1.7) | 12.2 (1.4) | 12.6 (2.3) | 12.9 (1.3) | 13.2 (1.4) | 13.6 (0.8) | 0.3632 |
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| % kcal from carbohydrate | 52.0 (6.1) | 52.6 (6.8) | 50.5 (5.8) | 52.2 (4.6) | 52.3 (6.2) | 55.2 (8.6) | 0.6865 |
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| % of RDA | 110 (26.0) | 128 (26.1) | 94 (22.9) | 102 (19.2) | 105 (12.8) | 116 (29.0) | <0.0001 |
| <50th percentile for BMI | 110 (16) | 120 (20) | 102 (15) | 114 (12) | 106 (9) | 99 (10) | 0.0976 |
| ≥50th percentile for BMI | 109 (31) | 132 (29) | 86 (27) | 97 (20) | 105 (17) | 148 (−) | 0.0005 |
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| <50th percentile for BMI | 105 (16) | 110 (18) | 105 (17) | 110 (13) | 103 (13) | 86 (8) | 0.4631 |
| ≥50th percentile for BMI | 94 (25) | 108 (25) | 80 (23) | 89 (22) | 86 (11) | 127 (−) | 0.0176 |