Body composition impacts appetite regulation in middle childhood. A prospective study of Norwegian community children

Table 3 Estimated paths of the main autoregressive cross lagged model (N = 807)

	Food responsiveness age 8		Satiety responsiveness age 8			Food responsiveness age 10		Satiety responsiveness age 10
	B (95% CI)	β	B (95% CI)	β		B (95% CI)	β	B (95% CI)	β
Fat mass age 6	.05^** (.02, .09)	.13	−.01 (−.05, .03)	−.02	Fat mass age 8	.04^** (.01, .06)	.15	−.02 (−.04, .01)	−.06
Muscle mass age 6	.01 (−.02, .05)	.06	−.06^** (−.10, −.02)	−.23	Muscle mass age 8	.01 (−.02, .04)	.06	−.05^*** (.-.08, −.02)	−.26

Note. Baseline levels of appetitive traits and children’s height were adjusted for and within time correlations between all study variables and between time relations between muscle mass and fat mass were estimated, but are not displayed in the figure. Asterisks indicate the level of significance (^* = p < 05; ^** = p ≤ .01; ^*** = p ≤ .001)

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