Associations of dietary indices with biomarkers of dietary exposure and cardiovascular status among adolescents in Germany

Table 6 Obese adolescents ^$ (percentages and 95% CI ) according to quintiles of dietary indices*

	Index	1. Quintile	3. Quintile	5. Quintile	ß	p
Girls	HFD	20.5	17.1	16.9	−0.061	.162
N=2,544	HFD	16.7-24.6	14.0-20.6	14.1-20.0
	HuSKY	16.2	16.2	18.7	0.063	.159
	HuSKY	12.9-20.0	13.1-19.8	15.8-22.0
	IFI	12.7	20.3	18.4	0.078	.092
	IFI	9.8-16.1	16.5-24.5	14.9-22.3
	Fruit/vegetable intake	18.8	18.7	19.2	0.044	.382
		15.2-22.9	15.3-22.4	16.1-22.6
Boys	HFD	14.0	17.6	17.6	0.041	.364
N=2,634	HFD	11.4-16.9	14.5-21.1	14.1-21.6
	HuSKY	15.9	18.0	19.2	0.051	.267
	HuSKY	13.0-19.1	14.8-21.5	15.4-23.4
	IFI	13.6	19.4	21.0	0.158	.001
	IFI	11.4-16.2	15.9-23.3	16.4-26.3
	Fruit/vegetable intake	19.0	15.7	19.6	0.009	.847
		15.9-22.3	12.8-19.0	15.9-23.7

Abbreviation: CI (Confidence interval), HFD (Healthy Food Diversity Index), HuSKY (Healthy Nutrition Score for Kids and Youth), IFI (Indicator Food Index).
*P values less than 0.05 (bold) were considered statistically significant.
^$calculated according to Kromeyer-Hauschild et al. [35].

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