Table 5.
Unadjusted and adjusted associations between stunting at 2 years and fat free mass at 23 years in male and female participants of the Birth-to-twenty Plus cohort study.
| Variables | Males | Females | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Model 1 | N | Model 2 | N | Model 3 | N | Model 1 | N | Model 2 | N | Model 3 | |
| Stunting at 2 years | ||||||||||||
| No | 209 | Reference | 208 | Reference | 199 | Reference | 249 | Reference | 249 | Reference | 240 | Reference |
| Yes | 79 | −0.09 (0.02)** | 77 | −0.09 (0.02)** | 75 | −0.03 (0.02) | 56 | −0.09 (0.02)** | 55 | −0.08 (0.02)** | 52 | −0.02(0.02) |
| Pubertal development trajectories | ||||||||||||
| 1 - Slowest | 61 | Reference | 59 | Reference | 60 | Reference | 59 | Reference | ||||
| 2 | 100 | 0.02 (0.02) | 94 | 0.03 (0.02) | 87 | 0.00 (0.03) | 84 | 0.01 (0.02) | ||||
| 3 | 84 | 0.01 (0.02) | 82 | 0.01 (0.02) | 90 | 0.00 (0.02) | 85 | 0.03 (0.02) | ||||
| 4 - Fastest | 40 | 0.03 (0.03) | 39 | 0.05 (0.03)* | 67 | 0.07 (0.03)** | 64 | 0.09 (0.02)** | ||||
| Height at 23 years | 274 | 0.01 (0.003)** | 292 | 0.01 (0.003)** | ||||||||
| Observations | 288 | 285 | 274 | 305 | 304 | 292 | ||||||
| R-squared | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.25 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 0.28 | ||||||
All values are linear regression coefficients with standard errors in parentheses; Significance levels: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.