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

BMC Pediatrics

Table 4 Association of diet quality scores and overweight, obesity in children and adolescents based on sex

Population	Outcomes	Overweight				Obesity
		Male		Female		Male		Female
		OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P
Children aged 2–11 years^a	HEI-2015	0.99 (0.98–0.99)	0.021	0.99 (0.99–1.00)	0.252	1.00 (0.99–1.01)	0.510	1.00 (0.99–1.01)	0.892
	AHEI-2010	1.00 (0.99–1.02)	0.826	1.00 (0.98–1.01)	0.633	0.99 (0.98–1.01)	0.310	0.99 (0.97–1.00)	0.114
	MedDiet	0.92 (0.87–0.98)	0.008	0.98 (0.93–1.03)	0.416	0.92 (0.87–0.97)	0.003	0.98 (0.92–1.04)	0.465
Adolescents aged 12–19 years^b	AHEI-2010	0.98 (0.96–0.99)	0.008	1.01 (0.99–1.03)	0.191	1.00 (0.98–1.01)	0.716	0.99 (0.97–1.00)	0.073
	HEI-2015	0.99 (0.98–1.00)	0.233	1.00 (0.98–1.01)	0.367	0.99 (0.98–1.00)	0.235	0.99 (0.98–1.01)	0.276
	MedDiet	0.90 (0.85–0.96)	< 0.001	1.01 (0.94–1.08)	0.858	0.94 (0.88–0.99)	0.039	0.97 (0.90–1.04)	0.359

HEI-2015 Healthy Eating Index 2015, AHEI -2010 Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010, MedDiet Mediterranean Diet, OR Odds ratio, CI Confident interval
^a adjusted age, race, maternal smoking during pregnancy and total energy
^b adjusted age, sex, race, poverty-income ratio, cotinine, total energy and physical activity

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