Table 2.

Crude and multivariable-adjusted means for anthropometric measures across categories of whole-day water intake and intra-meal fluid consumption¹

Whole-day water intake (glass/d)						Intra-meal fluid consumption (glass/d)
	< 2	2–5	6–8	> 8	P-value	< 1	1–2	3–4	> 4	P-value
Weight (kg)
Crude	66.00 ± 0.32	68.71 ± 0.25	71.85 ± 0.41	73.76 ± 0.80	< 0.001	67.56 ± 0.17	71.45 ± 0.27	72.45 ± 0.85	73.90 ± 1.46	< 0.001
Multivariable-adjusted2	64.95 ± 0.35	67.63 ± 0.24	70.73 ± 0.42	72.89 ± 0.84	< 0.001	66.57 ± 0.21	70.22 ± 0.35	71.54 ± 1.10	70.89 ± 1.89	< 0.001
WC (cm)
Crude	86.03 ± 0.29	87.20 ± 0.20	88.71 ± 0.36	89.66 ± 0.71	< 0.001	86.52 ± 0.18	88.91 ± 0.29	89.70 ± 0.96	92.87 ± 1.57	< 0.001
Multivariable-adjusted2	85.75 ± 0.34	86.67 ± 0.24	87.48 ± 0.43	89.51 ± 0.85	< 0.001	86.02 ± 0.21	88.18 ± 0.35	88.98 ± 1.11	90.82 ± 1.92	< 0.001
BMI (kg/m2)
Crude	24.63 ± 0.12	24.88 ± 0.09	25.43 ± 0.10	25.70 ± 0.21	< 0.001	24.76 ± 0.05	25.38 ± 0.08	25.13 ± 0.26	25.85 ± 0.45	< 0.001
Multivariable-adjusted2	24.36 ± 0.10	24.55 ± 0.07	25.03 ± 0.12	25.43 ± 0.25	< 0.001	24.46 ± 0.06	24.96 ± 0.10	24.77 ± 0.32	25.35 ± 0.56	< 0.001

¹Data are mean ± standard error (SE)

²Adjusted for age, sex, total energy intake, education, physical activity, marital status, home ownership, eating rate, breakfast skipping, meal regularity and number of meals