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. 2019 May 28;109(6):1648–1655. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz019

TABLE 3.

Associations of tea and coffee caffeine with offspring overweight status and central obesity at 5 and 9 y1

Overweight/obesity (IOTF) Central obesity (WC >90th percentile)
Year 5 (n = 558) Year 9 (n = 283) Year 5 (n = 557) Year 9 (n = 269)
Total caffeine intake (per 100 mg/d increment) 1.32 (1.11, 1.57)** 1.44 (1.10, 1.88)** 1.28 (1.02, 1.60)* 1.62 (1.12, 2.34)*
 <50 mg/d Ref Ref Ref Ref
 50 to <100 mg/d 0.87 (0.49, 1.54) 1.01 (0.39, 2.66) 1.14 (0.49, 2.62) 0.76 (0.15, 3.84)
 100 to <200 mg/d 1.13 (0.64, 1.97) 1.29 (0.53, 3.15) 0.91 (0.38, 2.16) 1.24 (0.31, 5.05)
 ≥200 mg/d 1.83 (0.95, 3.52)T1 2.76 (0.99, 7.66)T2 1.86 (0.74, 4.70) 3.22 (0.68, 15.25)
P-trend 0.05 0.042 0.35 0.08
Caffeine from coffee
 0 mg/d Ref Ref Ref Ref
 <200 mg/d 0.86 (0.56, 1.34) 1.05 (0.53, 2.07) 0.95 (0.49, 1.82) 1.98 (0.68, 5.70)
 ≥200 mg/d 1.93 (1.06, 3.52) 2.81 (1.14, 6.90)* 1.93 (0.84, 4.44) 4.57 (1.14, 18.24)*
P-trend 0.17 0.10 0.26 0.046
Caffeine from tea
 <50 mg/d Ref Ref Ref Ref
 50 to <100 mg/d 0.97 (0.61, 1.52) 0.76 (0.36, 1.60) 1.27 (0.64, 2.50) 0.55 (0.16, 1.90)
 ≥100 mg/d 1.31 (0.78, 2.21) 1.61 (0.74, 3.50) 1.47 (0.67, 3.21) 1.84 (0.58, 5.83)
P-trend 0.46 0.27 0.41 0.21

IOTF, International Obesity Task Force; WC, waist circumference.

1Values are OR (95% CI) from logistic regressions. Regressions were adjusted for maternal socio-economic status, education attainment, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption during periconceptional period, age at recruitment, parity, prepregnancy BMI; regressions for different caffeine sources were additionally mutually adjusted for each other; the outcomes were intrinsically adjusted for child gender and age at measurement.

T1 P = 0.07, T2P = 0.05, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.