Sugar and artificially sweetened beverage consumption and adiposity changes: National longitudinal study

Table 6 Associations between sweetened beverage consumption and percentage body fat, analyses including adjustment for height and height squared

		Unadjusted coefficient at age 11 (95 % CI)	Adjusted coefficient at age 11 (95 % CI)	Unadjusted coefficient age 7–11 (95 % CI)	Adjusted coefficient age 7–11 (95 % CI)
Sugar sweetened beverages
Sugar sweetened beverage consumption at age 11^a	Weekly	0.34 (0.00; 0.68)	0.31 (−0.01; 0.64)	0.48 (0.24; 0.73)	0.42 (0.18; 0.67)
Sugar sweetened beverage consumption at age 11^a	Daily	0.57 (0.20; 0.94)	0.52 (0.15; 0.88)	0.61 (0.35; 0.86)	0.54 (0.28; 0.80)
Artificially sweetened beverages
Artificially sweetened beverage consumption at age 11^b	Weekly	1.20 (0.80; 1.61)	0.78 (0.39; 1.17)	0.36 (0.05; 0.67)	0.26 (−0.03; 0.56)
Artificially sweetened beverage consumption at age 11^b	Daily	1.39 (1.03; 1.74)	1.04 (0.69; 1.39)	0.40 (0.16; 0.64)	0.33 (0.08; 0.59)

^aReference group children consuming sugar sweetened beverages less than once a week/never
^bReference group children consuming artificially sweetened beverages less than once a week/never
Weekly consumption = 1–6 days a week, Daily consumption = once a day/more than once a day
CI – Confidence intervals. Adjusted models adjusted for: age (in months), sex, ethnic group, equivalised income, mother’s highest educational qualification, country, portions of fruit consumer per day, breakfast consumption, days per week of sport/exercise, hours spent watching TV per weekday and mode of transport to school, being on a controlled diet at age7and snacking at age 7. Models of change in adiposity adjusted for adiposity at age 7

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