Adolescent Metabolic Syndrome Risk Is Increased with Higher Infancy Weight Gain and Decreased with Longer Breast Feeding

Table 2

Linear regression models to determine adjusted associations with adolescent MetS risk (𝑛=357).

	Initial model		Final model
	β	95% CI	β	95% CI
Change in weight 0–3 months (kg)	0.15	−0.01, 0.31	0.16	0.04, 0.27
Exclusively breastfed ≥90 days	−0.19	−0.36, −0.03	−0.16	−0.29, −0.04
Male	0.23	0.05, 0.01	0.24	0.11, 0.37
Birth weight (kg)	0.09	−0.14, 0.04
Maternal education	0.01	−0.01, 0.01
Mother’s age	0.00	−0.01, 0.01
Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI	0.02	−0.01, 0.05
Family history of type 2 diabetes	0.10	−0.10, 0.27
Family history of dyslipidemia	0.00	−0.17, 0.18
Family history of heart attack	−0.06	−0.23, 0.10
Ever iron deficiency in infancy	−0.09	−0.35, 0.16
Iron supplemented in infancy	0.02	−0.16, 0.20