High beverage sugar as well as high animal protein intake at infancy may increase overweight risk at 8 years: a prospective longitudinal pilot study

Table 1 Subject characteristics (in percentage or as mean ± SD)

	Total group (n = 120)			Subgroup (n = 63)
	Not overweight N = 100	Overweight N = 20	P	Not overweight N = 52	Overweight N = 11	P
Infant age, months	8.5 ± 2.9	9.4 ± 2.6	0.18	8.3 ± 2.9	9.6 ± 2.3	0.21
Infant weight, kg	8.4 ± 1.5	9.0 ± 1.3	0.10	8.2 ± 1.4	9.2 ± 0.9	0.03
Gender, % boys	50	70	0.10	50	73	0.17
High socio-economic status, %	31	35	0.73	33	36	0.81
Breastfed at time of intake assessment, %	21	25	0.69	21	27	0.66
Maternal overweight, %	-	-		39	46	0.67
BMI mother, kg/m²	-	-		25.4 ± 5.1	25.6 ± 2.6	0.94
Physical activity, h/week	-	-		14.4 ± 5.3	12.1 ± 5.8	0.20
Duration of breastfeeding, weeks	-	-		35 ± 36	25 ± 24	0.32

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