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Table 2 Associations between breastfeeding with duration ≤ 6 months and childhood obesity among US children in NHANES 2009–2020

From: Beneficial effects of short-term breastfeeding versus non-breastfeeding in early life against childhood obesity: findings from the US-based population study NHANES

Breastfed

Model 1

Model 2

 

Crude

Adjusted

Crude

Adjusted

Never

Reference

Reference

Reference

Reference

Ever

0.90 (0.71, 1.16)

0.93 (0.71, 1.21)

  

≤ 3 months

  

0.96 (0.73, 1.25)

0.95 (0.73, 1.25)

> 3 ~ 6 months

  

0.82 (0.61, 1.09)

0.85 (0.63, 1.15)

P-trend

  

0.209

0.324

  1. Crude model: no cofounder
  2. Adjusted model: adjusted for gender, age, race, the ratio of family income to poverty, mother’s smoking history when pregnancy, maternal age when born, and birth weight
  3. Model 1: the variable of breastfeeding was classified into never breastfed and ever breastfed, with the former as a reference
  4. Model 2: the variable of breastfeeding was classified into never breastfed, breastfed for ≤ 3 months and breastfed for > 3 ~ 6 months, with the category of being never breastfed as a reference
  5. Data are presented as odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals
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