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Table 3 Proportion of stability and tracking coefficients in girls (n=4400)

From: Changes and tracking of fruit, vegetables and sugar-sweetened beverages intake from 18 months to 7 years in the Norwegian mother and child cohort study

Dietary behaviours

18 months

36 months

7 years

n

%

Median

5th–95th

Decrease

Stability

Increase

Spearman’s rho

Decrease

Stability

Increase

Spearman’s rho

percentile

%

%

%

 

%

%

%

 

Fruit (times/week)

4247

   

8.1

41.6

50.3

0.36

15.6

51.4

33.0

0.24

Low (≤ 5)

1601

37.7

5.0

(2.0–5.0)

n.c

36.3

63.7

 

n.c

38.4

61.6

 

Medium (5.1–13.9)

2375

55.9

10.5

(10.5–10.5)

11.8

41.3

46.9

 

20.3

62.3

17.4

 

High (≥ 14)

271

6.4

21.0

(21.0–21.0)

23.6

76.4

n.c

 

66.8

33.2

n.c

 

Vegetables (times/week)

4289

   

39.8

47.1

13.1

0.37

26.0

48.9

25.2

0.31

Low (≤ 5)

1677

39.1

3.0

(0.5–5.0)

n.c

73.3

26.7

 

n.c

59.8

40.2

 

Medium (5.1–7)

1012

23.6

6.0

(5.5–7.0)

54.2

34.3

11.5

 

40.5

19.5

40.0

 

High (> 7)

1600

37.3

10.0

(7.5–21.0)

72.3

27.7

n.c

 

43.9

56.1

n.c

 

SSB (times or glasses/week)

4143

   

17.0

54.3

28.8

0.44

19.9

45.1

35.0

0.30

Low (≤ 1.5)

2111

51.0

0.5

(0–1.0)

n.c

55.6

44.4

 

n.c

44.0

56.0

 

Medium (1.6–4.9)

1087

26.2

2.5

(2.0–4.0)

24.9

51.7

23.4

 

27.0

48.3

24.7

 

High (≥ 5)

945

22.8

10.0

(5.0–24.5)

45.7

54.3

n.c

 

56.0

44.0

n.c

 
  1. SSB Sugar-sweetened beverages, n.c. no change (decrease/increase) of behaviour possible.