Table 2.

Associations between continuous dietary pattern scores and binary EPDS scores^* in the whole cohort (i.e. unrestricted sample) and the restricted sample (who were ‘disease free’ at baseline) of women from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

	Whole cohort			Restricted sample
Women’s dietary pattern	OR	95 % CI	P value	OR	95 % CI	P value
Unadjusted	n 7698			n 6799
‘Health conscious’	0·94	0·87, 1·01	0·082	0·99	0·90, 1·09	0·830
‘Processed’	1·12	1·04, 1·20	0·002	1·09	1·00, 1·19	0·064
‘Confectionery’	0·99	0·92, 1·06	0·754	1·04	0·95, 1·13	0·445
‘Vegetarian’	1·06	0·99, 1·13	0·120	1·05	0·96, 1·15	0·296
Adjusted†	n 7134			n 6318
‘Health conscious’	0·94	0·87, 1·03	0·180	1·01	0·91, 1·11	0·913
‘Processed’	1·01	0·92, 1·10	0·855	1·04	0·94, 1·16	0·420
‘Confectionery’	1·01	0·93, 1·10	0·777	1·05	0·95, 1·15	0·335
‘Vegetarian’	0·94	0·87, 1·02	0·134	1·01	0·92, 1·11	0·814

EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

^*EPDS score ≥13 compared with the reference group having EPDS score <13.

^†Adjusted for all variables in Table 1.