Table 1 Characteristics of the study population by ethnicity and feeding patterna
From: Feeding patterns and BMI trajectories during infancy: a multi-ethnic, prospective birth cohort
| Â | Â | Ethnicity | Feeding pattern | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | Dutch | Turkish/ Moroccan | EBF/ early CF | EBF/ late CF | Mixed/ early CF | Mixed/ late CF | Formula/ early CF | Formula/ late CF |
| Â | All (3524) | Â | Â | 16.0 (562) | 31.2 (1101) | 16.2 (573) | 16.9 (597) | 11.5 (405) | 8.1 (286) |
Maternal characteristics | |||||||||
Ethnicityb | |||||||||
 Dutch | 81.7 (2880) |  |  | 16.5 (475) | 32.7 (943) | 14.8 (428) | 15.1 (436) | 12.1 (348) | 8.7 (250) |
 Turkish / Moroccan | 18.3 (644) |  |  | 13.5 (87) | 24.5 (158) | 22.5 (145) | 25.0 (161) | 8.8 (57) | 5.6 (36) |
Education | |||||||||
 Low | 15.7 (554) | 6.9 (199) | 55.1 (355) | 12.3 (69) | 11.0 (121) | 17.1 (98) | 22.1 (132) | 21.0 (85) | 17.1 (49) |
 Medium | 34.8 (1226) | 33.9 (976) | 38.8 (250) | 33.3 (187) | 30.0 (330) | 39.1 (224) | 33.8 (202) | 41.0 (166) | 40.9 (117) |
 High | 49.5 (1744) | 59.2 (1705) | 6.1 (39) | 54.4 (306) | 59.1 (650) | 43.8 (251) | 44.1 (263) | 38.0 (154) | 42.0 (120) |
Pre-pregnancy BMI | |||||||||
 Overweight | 21.6 (761) | 17.0 (491) | 41.9 (270) | 19.4 (109) | 18.7 (206) | 20.2 (116) | 24.8 (148) | 29.9 (121) | 21.3 (61) |
Parity | |||||||||
 Primiparous | 57.0 (2010) | 59.5 (1713) | 46.1 (297) | 52.3 (294) | 52.6 (579) | 60.9 (349) | 58.1 (347) | 60.0 (243) | 69.2 (198) |
Smoking | |||||||||
 Yes | 6.6 (232) | 6.6 (191) | 6.4 (41) | 5.2 (29) | 4.9 (54) | 7.2 (41) | 5.9 (35) | 10.4 (42) | 10.8 (31) |
Child characteristics | |||||||||
Sex | |||||||||
 Boy | 50.3 (1773) | 49.5 1.4(115) | 53.8 (347) | 49.1 (276) | 49.5 (545) | 51.7 (296) | 50.6 (302) | 51.6 (209) | 50.7 (145) |
Preterm birth | |||||||||
 Yes | 4.0 (140) | 4.1 (118) | 3.4 (22) | 0.9 (5) | 3.2 (35) | 3.8 (22) | 4.5 (27) | 6.2 (25) | 9.1 (26) |
Birth weight (kg) | |||||||||
 mean, SD | 3.51 (0.53) | 3.52 (0.54) | 3.44 (0.51) | 3.58 (0.50) | 3.54 (0.50) | 3.49 (0.50) | 3.45 (0.55) | 3.49 (0.59) | 3.43 (0.63) |