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Table 2 Relationship between breastfeeding and BMI (kg/m2) of children and adolescents (aged 6 to 16 years) in ShiBei District of Qingdao, China

From: Breastfeeding and overweight/obesity among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study

Population

Breastfeeding

All weight types

Overweight

Obesity

Crude

β(95%CI)

Adjusted

β(95%CI)

Crude

β(95%CI)

Adjusted

β(95%CI)

Crude

β(95%CI)

Adjusted

β(95%CI)

All

Continuousa

0.025

(-0.034, -0.006)**

-0.025

(-0.033, -0.005)**

-0.033

(-0.035,0.006)

-0.038

(-0.037,0.004)

-0.088

(-0.097,-0.035)**

-0.091

(-0.100, -0.038)**

Categorical b

 < 12 months

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≧12momths

-0.284

(-0.432, -0.137)**

-0.274

(-0.422, -0.127)**

-0.172

(-0.380,0.035)

-0.200

(-0.409,0.008)

-0.419

(-0.740, -0.099)**

-0.435

(-0.757, -0.114)**

In boys

Continuous a

-0.040

(-0.052, -0.012)**

-0.040

(-0.052, -0.012)**

-0.076

(-0.057, -0.006)**

-0.084

(-0.061, -0.009)**

-0.081

(-0.092, -0.020)*

-0.082

(-0.094,-0.020)*

Categorical b

 < 12 months

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≧12momths

-0.441

(-0.657, -0.225)**

-0.440

(-0.655, -0.224)**

-0.372

(-0.639, -0.104)**

-0.415

(-0.684, -0.146)**

-0.445

(‘-0.830, -0.061)*

-0.451

(-0.836, -0.066)*

In girls

Continuous a

-0.017

(‘-0.032,0.007)

-0.017

(‘-0.032,0.007)

0.014

(-0.026,0.040)

0.010

(-0.028,0.038)

-0.098

(-0.136, -0.029)**

-0.105

(-0.141, -0.034)**

Categorical b

 < 12 months

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-0.196

(-0.394,0.001)

-0.181

(-0.379,0.018)

0.030

(-0.294,0.354)

0.020

(-0.304,0.345)

-0.402

(-0.953,0.149)

-0.426

(‘-0.981,0.130)

  1. BMI Body Mass Index, CI confidence interval
  2. aMultiple liner regression was used to analyze the relationship between breastfeeding duration (as a continuous variable) and BMI
  3. bGeneralized liner model was used to analyze the relationship between breastfeeding duration (as a categorical variable) and prevalence of overweight and obesity; All the models were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, parity, birth method, gestational age at birth, birth weight (kg), birth height (cm)
  4. *P < 0.05
  5. **P < 0.01