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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;216(2):113–119. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.174

Table 5.

Estimated baseline risks (BR) and risk differences (RD) by fussy eating trajectories and outcomes age 16 years, adjusted for sex, gestational age, birthweight, maternal age and maternal education

Childhood Fussy Eating Trajectories
Excessive exercise (N=4354)
BR 95% CI p-value
Low fussy eating (N=895)$ 0.055 0.040, 0.070 <0.001
RD 95% CI p-value
Low transient (N=681) −0.014 −0.036,0.007 0.189
Low and increasing (N=1132) −0.003 −0.023, 0.017 0.779
Early and decreasing (N=684) −0.015 −0.036, 0.006 0.168
Rapidly increasing (N=554) −0.015 −0.037, 0.007 0.178
High persistent (N=406) −0.011 −0.037, 0.014 0.389
Fasting (N=4681)
BR 95% CI p-value
Low fussy eating (N=971)$ 0.149 0.129, 0.170 <0.001
RD 95% CI p-value
Low transient (N=726) −0.030 −0.061, 0.001 0.060
Low and increasing (N=1232) −0.007 −0.035, 0.021 0.621
Early and decreasing (N=722) −0.003 −0.035, 0.029 0.868
Rapidly increasing (N=599) −0.016 −0.049, 0.017 0.339
High persistent (N=431) −0.019 −0.059, 0.108 0.309
Anorexia nervosa (N=4760)
BR 95% CI p-value
Low fussy eating (N=938)$ 0.012 0.005, 0.019 <0.001
RD 95% CI p-value
Low transient (N=737) −0.002 −0.012, 0.008 0.712
Low and increasing (N=1258) 0.005 −0.005, 0.014 0.371
Early and decreasing (N=736) 0.020 0.005, 0.034 0.007
Rapidly increasing (N=607) 0.001 −0.011, 0.012 0.903
High persistent (N=439) 0.022 0.004, 0.040 0.017

BR = Baseline risk; RD = Risk difference;

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