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Table 2 Prevalence of non-nutritive sweeteners consumption by dietary source among low-medium income pre-schoolers from the Food and Environment Chilean Cohort, by sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics

From: Consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners by pre-schoolers of the food and environment Chilean cohort (FECHIC) before the implementation of the Chilean food labelling and advertising law

 

Prevalence of non-nutritive sweeteners consumption, n (%)

Characteristics

From at least one source of NNS

From foods and beverages only

From foods, beverages and table-top sweeteners

Did not report NNS consumption

Total sample (n = 959)

651 (67.9)

532 (55.5)

119 (12.4)

308 (32.1)

Sex

 Female (n = 498)

324 (49.8)

259 (48.7)

65 (54.6)

174 (56.5)

 Male (n = 461)

327 (50.2)

273 (51.3)*

54 (45.4)

134 (43.5)

Age, years

 < 4.6 (n = 481)

331 (50.8)

275 (51.7)

56 (47.1)

150 (48.7)

 > 4.6 (n = 478)

320 (49.2)

257 (48.3)

63 (52.9)

158 (51.3)

Level of maternal education

 Low (<  12 years of study) (n = 171)

107 (16.4)

93 (17.5)

14 (11.8)

64 (20.8)

 Medium (12 years of study) (n = 397)

258 (39.6)

209 (39.3)

49 (41.2)

139 (45.1)

 High (12 years of study) (n = 391)

286 (44.0)*

230 (43.2)*

56 (47.0)*

105 (34.1)

Child weight status a

 Normal weight (n = 508) (−2SD < BMI-for age z-score < +1SD)

335 (51.5)

267 (50.2)

68 (57.1)

173 (56.2)

 Overweight (n = 276) (+1SD < BMI-for-age z-score < +2SD)

191 (29.3)

172 (32.3)

19 (16.0)

85 (27.6)

 Obese (n = 175) (+1SD < BMI-for-age z-score < +2SD)

125 (19.2)

93 (17.5)

32 (26.9)**

50 (16.2)

Child abdominal obesity bc

 Absence (n = 865)

582 (89.5)

482 (90.8)

100 (84.0)

283 (92.2)

 Presence (n = 92)

68 (10.5)

49 (9.2)

19 (16.0)*

24 (7.8)

Maternal weight status de

 Non obese (BMI < 30 kg/m2) (n = 593)

412 (66.2)

333 (65.7)

79 (68.7)

181 (60.9)

 Obese (BMI > 30 kg/m2) (n = 326)

210 (33.8)

174 (34.3)

36 (31.3)

116 (39.1)

Maternal abdominal obesity ef

 Absence (n = 410)

287 (46.1)

228 (45.0)

59 (51.3)

123 (41.4)

 Presence (n = 509)

335 (53.9)

279 (55.0)

56 (48.7)

174 (58.6)

  1. aDefined based on WHO Child Growth Standards 2006 for children under 5-years-old and WHO Growth Reference 2007 for children above 5-years-old [46, 47, 53]
  2. bWaist circumference measures were compared to USA percentiles describe by Fernandez et al. [49] and Cook et al. criteria was used to assess abdominal obesity among children [50]
  3. cData were available for 957 preschool children, two children refused to be measured
  4. dDefined based on WHO cut-off points for Body Mass Index in adults [48]
  5. eData were available for 919 mothers; 38 mothers were pregnant and two refused to be measured
  6. fDefined based on the criteria for clinical identification of metabolic syndrome described by the Adult Treatment Panel III 2001 [51]
  7. * P < 0.05 analysed using Chi2 independence test
  8. ** P < 0.01 analysed using Chi2 independence test
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