Table 3.

Association of sweetened beverage and snack consumption with overweight (incidence, crude and adjusted models) among children from the younger cohort of the Young Lives cohort study in Peru, who participated in the third (2009; considered baseline in the current analysis) and the fourth (2013; follow-up) rounds

		Incidence per 100 person-years		Crude model		Adjusted model*
Exposure	Category	RR	95 % CI	RR	95 % CI	RR	95 % CI
Sweetened beverage consumption	Never	1·94	1·17, 3·21	1·00	Reference	1·00	Reference
	Up to every 2 weeks	3·01	2·30, 3·93	1·55	0·90, 2·68	1·15	0·66, 1·99
	2–6 times per week	4·20	3·51, 5·04	2·16	1·29, 3·61	1·34	0·80, 2·25
	Daily	6·54	3·62, 11·82	3·46	1·72, 6·97	2·12	1·05, 4·28
Snack consumption	Never	2·41	1·68, 3·44	1·00	Reference	1·00	Reference
	Up to every 2 weeks	3·09	2·34, 4·07	1·29	0·84, 1·98	0·99	0·64, 1·54
	2–6 times per week	4·36	3·61, 5·28	1·81	1·23, 2·64	1·29	0·87, 1·92
	Daily	4·83	2·68, 8·73	2·00	1·06, 3·75	1·43	0·76, 2·69

RR, relative risk.

Significant (P<0·05) estimates are presented in bold.

^*Model adjusted for sex, age, socio-economic status, physical activity and mother’s BMI at baseline.