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Table 3 Relationship between average daily soft drink consumption and body composition variables a

From: Sizing the association between lifestyle behaviours and fatness in a large, heterogeneous sample of youth of multiple ethnicities from 4 countries

  

New Zealand

Fiji

Tonga

Australia

All

 

Cans per day

Pacific (N = 770)

Maori (N = 348)

Asian (N = 134)

European (N = 233)

All New Zealand (N = 1485)

Indigenous Fijian (N = 611)

Fijian Indian (N = 832)

All Fiji (N = 1443)

Tongan (N = 1019)

Australian (N = 1673)

All (N = 5620)d

Mean BMIb

0

25.10 (0.40)

23.76 (0.63)

20.52 (0.40)

21.21 (0.27)

23.70 (0.35)

21.69 (0.26)

18.87 (0.20)

20.05 (0.15)

21.95 (0.14)

20.68 (0.10)

21.52 (0.10)

Increment in BMIc

>0-2

0.04 (0.46)

-0.13 (0.61)

-0.33 (0.33)

0.56 (0.32)

0.11 (0.34)

-0.17 (0.23)

0.09 (0.22)

-0.01 (0.13)

0.46 (0.14)†

0.07 (0.14)

0.17 (0.10)

>2

0.12 (0.60)

2.03 (0.86)*

0.73 (0.63)

1.79 (0.69)*

0.88 (0.52)

0.52 (0.44)

-0.14 (0.38)

0.16 (0.29)

1.42 (0.25)‡

0.46 (0.23)*

0.75 (0.21)‡

Mean BMIzb

0

1.36 (0.08)

1.00 (0.15)

0.05 (0.12)

0.26 (0.07)

0.97 (0.08)

0.40 (0.08)

-0.67 (0.08)

-0.22 (0.06)

0.60 (0.04)

0.28 (0.03)

0.38 (0.03)

Increment in BMIzc

>0-2

0.01 (0.09)

0.00 (0.14)

-0.14 (0.09)

0.13 (0.07)

0.03 (0.08)

-0.04 (0.07)

0.01 (0.09)

-0.01 (0.05)

0.11 (0.04)*

0.02 (0.04)

0.05 (0.03)

>2

0.04 (0.12)

0.51 (0.20)*

0.27 (0.17)

0.53 (0.17)†

0.23 (0.12)

0.17 (0.13)

-0.05 (0.16)

0.04 (0.11)

0.37 (0.07)‡

0.15 (0.07)*

0.20 (0.06)‡

Mean %BFb

0

31.10 (1.07)

28.94 (1.45)

21.96 (0.54)

24.22 (0.53)

28.48 (0.82)

20.78 (0.64)

22.29 (0.51)

21.61 (0.41)

21.16 (0.58)

26.30 (0.26)

24.59 (0.28)

Increment in %BFc

>0-2

-0.88 (1.12)

-0.43 (1.28)

-0.59 (0.89)

0.27 (0.94)

-0.36 (0.85)

-0.70 (0.45)

0.23 (0.61)

-0.11 (0.38)

1.64 (0.47)‡

-0.22 (0.44)

0.36 (0.31)

>2

-0.81 (1.52)

5.38 (1.93)†

1.94 (1.23)

6.01 (3.38)

1.84 (1.48)

0.77 (1.04)

-0.50 (0.81)

0.13 (0.70)

3.32 (0.43)‡

-0.17 (0.70)

1.49 (0.56)*

Mean TFMb

0

22.91 (1.27)

20.67 (1.75)

12.34 (0.54)

15.11 (0.44)

20.07 (0.97)

12.53 (0.54)

11.19 (0.41)

11.69 (0.34)

12.89 (0.42)

15.05 (0.20)

15.03 (0.25)

Increment in TFMc

>0-2

-0.04 (1.34)

-0.41 (1.69)

-0.49 (0.51)

0.56 (1.03)

0.06 (1.02)

-0.57 (0.44)

0.21 (0.47)

-0.04 (0.33)

1.38 (0.36)‡

-0.02 (0.31)

0.40 (0.28)

>2

0.32 (1.68)

6.23 (2.45)*

1.66 (0.94)

5.70 (2.83)*

2.58 (1.54)

1.11 (0.96)

-0.58 (0.70)

0.28 (0.63)

3.16 (0.45)‡

0.09 (0.64)

1.76 (0.55)†

  1. aAdjusted for age and sex. “New Zealand All”, “Fiji All” and “All countries” were further adjusted for ethnicity; bStandard error in parentheses; cCompared to “0 cans per day” (reference category). Standard error in parentheses; dR2 for BMI, BMIz, %BF and TFM models = 0.312, 0.310, 0.245 and 0.225, respectively; BMI = Body mass index (kg/m2); BMIz = BMI z-score; %BF = Percent body fat (%); TFM = Total fat mass (kg); *P<0.05; †P <0.01; ‡P <0.001.
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