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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2021 Oct 5;46(1):186–193. doi: 10.1038/s41366-021-00897-0

Table 2.

Associations of maternal NNS intake (quartiles of intake averaged across first and second trimesters) with BMI z-scores at each in-person research visit birth to early adolescence (linear regression)

NNS* Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
quartile β (95% CI)

BMI-z birth Q1 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref)
Q2 0.04 (−0.16, 0.23) 0.07 (−0.12, 0.27) 0.04 (−0.16, 0.23) 0.00 (−0.21, 0.21)
Q3 0.02 (−0.15, 0.18) 0.04 (−0.13, 0.21) 0.01 (−0.16, 0.18) 0.04 (−0.14, 0.22)
Q4 0.11 (−0.06, 0.27) 0.09 (−0.08, 0.26) 0.05 (−0.12, 0.22) 0.03 (−0.15, 0.21)
BMI-z 6 m Q1 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref)
Q2 0.00 (−0.19, 0.19) 0.00 (−0.20, 0.20) −0.02 (−0.22, 0.18) −0.03 (−0.23, 0.17)
Q3 0.05 (−0.11, 0.21) 0.00 (−0.17, 0.17) −0.02 (−0.19, 0.15) 0.02 (−0.16, 0.19)
Q4 0.20 (0.04, 0.37) 0.22 (0.05, 0.40) 0.20 (0.03, 0.38) 0.20 (0.02, 0.38)
BMI-z early childhood Q1 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref)
Q2 0.10 (−0.08, 0.27) 0.10 (−0.08, 0.27) 0.05 (−0.12, 0.23) 0.03 (−0.15, 0.20)
Q3 −0.02 (−0.17, 0.13) −0.03 (−0.19, 0.12) −0.07 (−0.23, 0.08) −0.07 (−0.23, 0.08)
Q4 0.28 (0.13, 0.43) 0.31 (0.15, 0.47) 0.24 (0.08, 0.39) 0.21 (0.05, 0.37)
BMI-z mid-childhood Q1 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref)
Q2 0.22 (0.00, 0.45) 0.23 (0.01, 0.45) 0.16 (−0.06, 0.37) 0.12 (−0.10, 0.34)
Q3 0.15 (−0.04, 0.33) 0.18 (0.00, 0.37) 0.11 (−0.08, 0.29) 0.11 (−0.07, 0.30)
Q4 0.38 (0.19, 0.56) 0.41 (0.22, 0.60) 0.31 (0.12, 0.50) 0.21 (0.02, 0.40)
BMI-z early adolescence Q1 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref) 0.0 (ref)
Q2 0.11 (−0.13, 0.35) 0.06 (−0.19, 0.30) −0.03 (−0.26, 0.20) −0.05 (−0.29, 0.18)
Q3 0.01 (−0.20, 0.22) 0.07 (−0.14, 0.28) −0.05 (−0.25, 0.15) −0.03 (−0.24, 0.17)
Q4 0.29 (0.08, 0.50) 0.32 (0.10, 0.54) 0.19 (−0.02, 0.40) 0.14 (−0.07, 0.35)

NNS: Diet soda + NutraSweet/Equal packets

Model 1. Unadjusted

Model 2. Adjusted for maternal age, race/ethnicity, education, parity, pre-pregnancy physical activity, and pregnancy smoking status

Model 3. Model 2 + pre-pregnancy BMI

Model 4. Model 3 + father’s BMI and education