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
| Ethnicity | Feeding pattern | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch |
Turkish/ Moroccan |
EBF/ early CF |
EBF/ late CF |
Mixed/ early CF |
Mixed/ late CF |
Formula/ early CF |
Formula/ late CF | ||
| All (3524) | 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) |