Reducing postpartum weight retention – a pilot trial in primary health care

Nutrition Journal

Table 3 Diet at baseline (2 months) and at follow-up (5 and 10 months). The values represent means (SD) and adjusted group differences (95% confidence intervals, CI) at follow-up.

	n	2 months postpartum, mean (SD)	5 months postpartum, mean (SD)	Adjusted mean difference to controls¹	p¹	10 months postpartum, mean (SD)	Adjusted mean difference to controls¹	p¹
Vegetables, fruit and berries (portions/d)
Intervention	44	2.4 (1.3)	2.6 (1.4)	+ 0.4	0.13	2.6 (1.4)	+ 0.2	0.42
Control	37	2.7 (2.0)	2.6 (1.8)	(-0.1–0.9)		2.5 (2.1)	(-0.3–0.8)
High-fibre bread (% of total bread)
Intervention	44	49 (29)	60 (29)	+ 16.0	0.008	65 (27)	+ 16.1	0.008
Control	37	49 (30)	45 (33)	(4.2–27.7)		52 (31)	(4.3–27.9)
High-sugar snacks (portions/d)
Intervention	44	1.9 (1.2)	2.2 (1.3)	+ 0.6	0.028	2.1 (1.2)	0.0	0.93
Control	37	2.0 (1.2)	1.5 (0.9)	(0.1–1.1)		2.1 (1.4)	(-0.6–0.6)

¹ ANCOVA: mean group differences, adjusted for baseline intake of the outcome variable, age, education, smoking status, gestational weight gain and BMI at 2 months postpartum. Intervention group: n = 42, Control group: n = 35

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