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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2021 Jun 24;237:50–58.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.06.027

Table 7 (Online Only):

Associations of nutrient intake changes from visit 1 (childhood) to visit 2 (adolescence) with log-transformed hepatic fat at visit 2 in the sample of multi-ethnic youth, excluding participants with obesity at visit 1 or visit 2 (n=322)

Model 1a Model 2b
△ Nutrient Intake (% TEI or g/1000 kcal) β (95% CI)c p β (95% CI)c p
Total Carbohydrate −0.02 (−0.05, 0.01) 0.25 −0.01 (−0.04, 0.02) 0.48
 Starch 0.01 (−0.05, 0.06) 0.83 0.02 (−0.03, 0.07) 0.47
 Sugar −0.01 (−0.05, 0.02) 0.49 −0.01 (−0.04, 0.02) 0.57
Total Fiber −0.08 (−0.17, 0.01) 0.07 −0.08 (−0.16, 0.01) 0.09
 Soluble Fiber −0.16 (−0.43, 0.12) 0.26 −0.14 (−0.41, 0.12) 0.29
 Insoluble Fiber 0.13 (−0.26, −0.01) 0.04 −0.12 (−0.25, 0.00) 0.05
Total Protein 0.07 (−0.03, 0.17) 0.19 0.06 (−0.04, 0.16) 0.26
 Animal Protein 0.10 (0.01, 0.18) 0.03 0.08 (0.00, 0.17) 0.05
 Vegetable Protein 0.21 (−0.39, −0.03) 0.02 0.19 (−0.36, −0.02) 0.03
Total Fat 0.01 (−0.03, 0.05) 0.73 0.00 (−0.04, 0.04) 0.91
 Saturated Fat 0.11 (0.01, 0.21) 0.03 0.08 (−0.02, 0.18) 0.10
 Monounsaturated Fat −0.01 (−0.10, 0.08) 0.87 −0.02 (−0.11, 0.06) 0.62
 Polyunsaturated Fat −0.15 (−0.30, 0.01) 0.06 0.16 (−0.31, −0.01) 0.03
  Other PUFAd 0.16 (−0.31, −0.01) 0.03 0.18 (−0.33, −0.02) 0.03
  Omega-3 PUFA 0.21 (−1.22, 1.64) 0.77 0.03 (−1.37, 1.42) 0.97
a

Model 1: Adjusted for offspring sex, age, Hispanic ethnicity, maternal education, maternal DM, maternal smoking, baseline intake (visit 1), change in TEI (visit 2-visit 1), and TEI plausibility at visit 1.

b

Model 2: Adjusted for Model 1 covariates and BMI z-score at visit 2.

c

β coefficients are estimate the effect on log-hepatic fat for a +5 unit increase in each nutrient as a percentage of TEI, except for dietary fiber, which is assessed as g/1000 kcal. Bold black indicates p<0.05. Bold black italic indicate p<0.10.

d

Calculated as total PUFA intake – omega-3 PUFA intake.

Abbreviations: HF, hepatic fat; TEI, total energy intake; BMI, body mass index; PUFA, polyunsaturated fat.