Adherence to a healthy and potentially sustainable Nordic diet is associated with child development in The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)

Table 3 Associations between the New Nordic Diet and child development examined as percentages of total score

Child development scores^a		6 months	18 months	3 years	5 years, language	5 years, motor
NND score		\(\hat{\beta}\) (95% CI)	\(\hat{\beta}\) (95% CI)	\(\hat{\beta}\) (95% CI)	\(\hat{\beta}\) (95% CI)	\(\hat{\beta}\) (95% CI)
Maternal score	Crude	0.020 (0.017, 0.023)	0.034 (0.029, 0.038)	0.027 (0.022, 0.031)	0.015 (0.010, 0.020)	0.028 (0.021, 0.035)
Maternal score	Adjusted^b	0.021 (0.018, 0.024)	0.037 (0.033, 0.042)	0.025 (0.020, 0.030)	0.012 (0.006, 0.017)	0.027 (0.020, 0.034)
6 months	Crude	0.010 (0.007, 0.013)	0.028 (0.024, 0.032)	0.018 (0.013, 0.022)	0.020 (0.015, 0.025)	0.015 (0.008, 0.021)
6 months	Adjusted^c	0.007 (0.004, 0.009)	0.021 (0.017, 0.025)	0.013 (0.009, 0.017)	0.013 (0.008, 0.018)	0.011 (0.005, 0.018)
18 months	Crude		0.063 (0.057, 0.069)	0.039 (0.033, 0.044)	0.025 (0.021, 0.029)	0.004 (0.003, 0.005)
18 months	Adjusted		0.045 (0.040, 0.050)	0.036 (0.031, 0.042)	0.031 (0.025, 0.037)	0.030 (0.022, 0.038)
3 years	Crude			0.036 (0.032, 0.040)	0.016 (0.012, 0.019)	0.003 (0.003, 0.004)
3 years	Adjusted			0.035 (0.031, 0.039)	0.019 (0.014, 0.024)	0.030 (0.023, 0.037)

Crude and adjusted linear regression of New Nordic Diet (NND) scores and child development scores, presented with \(\hat{\beta}\) and 95% confidence intervals (CI)
^aShort forms of Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) and Child Development Inventory (CDI)
^bAdjusted for maternal age, marital status, maternal education, maternal BMI, maternal depression, parity, siblings included in the study population and child age at completion of questionnaire
^cGestational age was additionally adjusted for in analysis of child diet

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