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Table 4 Associations between dietary animal and plant protein intakes (g/d and E%) and body composition of adolescents participating in the HELENA-CSS (n = 1804)

From: Dietary animal and plant protein intakes and their associations with obesity and cardio-metabolic indicators in European adolescents: the HELENA cross-sectional study

Dependent variables ^μ	Animal protein (g/d)				Plant protein (g/d)
	β	SE	95% CI	P	β	SE	95% CI	P
BMI z-score
Model 1	0.001	0.001	-0.001, 0.004	0.206	-0.002	0.002	-0.006, 0.002	0.414
Model 2	0.003	0.001	0.000, 0.006	0.023	0.000	0.002	-0.005, 0.004	0.847
Model 3	-0.000002	0.000001	-0.000007, 0.000	0.421	-0.012	0.005	-0.023, -0.001	0.027
Body fat (%)
Model 1	-0.054	0.009	-0.071, -0.036	<0.001	-0.162	0.016	-0.194, -0.131	<0.001
Model 2	-0.009	0.010	-0.030, 0.011	0.386	-0.106	0.019	-0.144, -0.069	<0.001
Model 3	-0.000052	0.000018	-0.000087, - 0.000016	0.004	-0.139	0.040	-0.217, -0.060	0.001
	Animal protein (E%)				Plant protein (E%)
BMI z-score
Model 1	0.021	0.008	0.005, 0.038	0.011	0.012	0.019	-0.026, 0.050	0.533
Model 2	0.021	0.008	0.005, 0.037	0.011	0.008	0.020	-0.031, 0.046	0.692
Model 3	0.024	0.009	0.006, 0.043	0.010	-0.027	0.021	-0.067, 0.013	0.188
Body fat (%)
Model 1	0.209	0.067	0.077, 0.341	0.002	0.124	0.156	-0.181, 0.429	0.426
Model 2	0.196	0.065	0.068, 0.325	0.003	-0.179	0.154	-0.482, 0.123	0.245
Model 3	0.168	0.070	0.030, 0.305	0.017	-0.229	0.151	-0.526, 0.068	0.130

SE, standard error of coefficient β; CI, confidence interval.
^μModel 1, unadjusted; model 2, adjusted for fat intake; model 3, model 2 further adjusted for age, sex, tanner stage, physical activity, country cluster, and interactions between potential confounding factors and animal / plant protein (separate model).

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