Association between diet quality scores and risk of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents

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Table 3 Association of diet quality scores and overweight, obesity in children and adolescents

Population	Outcomes	Diet quality scores	Model 1		Model 2
Population	Outcomes	Diet quality scores	OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P
Children aged 2–11 years	Overweight	HEI-2015	0.98 (0.98–0.99)	< 0.001	0.99 (0.98–0.99)^a	0.014
		AHEI-2010	0.99 (0.98–0.99)	0.023	1.00 (0.99–1.01)^a	0.876
		MedDiet	0.94 (0.90–0.98)	0.002	0.95 (0.91–0.99)^a	0.013
	Obesity	HEI-2015	0.99 (0.98–0.99)	< 0.001	1.00 (0.99–1.00)^a	0.548
		AHEI-2010	0.97 (0.96–0.98)	< 0.001	0.99 (0.98–1.00)^a	0.092
		MedDiet	0.92 (0.89–0.96)	< 0.001	0.95 (0.91–0.99)^a	0.009
Adolescents aged 12–19 years	Overweight	HEI-2015	1.00 (0.99–1.00)	0.194	0.99 (0.99–1.00)^b	0.145
		AHEI-2010	1.00 (0.99–1.01)	0.540	0.99 (0.98–1.00)^b	0.244
		MedDiet	0.96 (0.92–1.00)	0.069	0.96 (0.91–0.99)^b	0.049
	Obesity	HEI-2015	0.99 (0.99–1.00)	0.187	0.99 (0.98–1.00)^b	0.110
		AHEI-2010	1.00 (0.99–1.01)	0.472	0.99 (0.98–1.00)^b	0.150
		MedDiet	0.97 (0.92–1.01)	0.136	0.95 (0.91–0.99)^b	0.045

HEI-2015 Healthy Eating Index 2015, AHEI -2010 Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010, MedDiet Mediterranean Diet, OR Odds ratio, CI Confident interval
Model 1: crude model
Model 2: ^aadjusted age, race, maternal smoking during pregnancy and total energy
^badjusted age, sex, race, poverty-income ratio, cotinine, total energy and physical activity

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