Dietary fat intake and gestational weight gain in relation to estradiol and progesterone plasma levels during pregnancy: a longitudinal study in Swedish women

Table 3 Weight gain and dietary fat (total and subtypes) in relation to plasma estradiol levels.

	Univariate*		Multivariable#
	Percentage change in estradiol (95% CI)^§	P	Percentage change in estradiol (95% CI)^§	P
Weight gain (per 1 kg/week)	2.0 (-14, 18)	0.808	1.8 (-14, 18)	0.824
Total fat (per 10 g/day)	0.04 (-3.7, 3.8)	0.983	0.53 (-3.1, 4.3)	0.779
MUFA (per 10 g/day)	0.81 (-7.1, 9.4)	0.845	1.9 (-6.1,10.6)	0.651
PUFA (per 5 g/day)	0.97 (-4.9, 7.2)	0.753	1.2 (-4.7, 7.5)	0.699
SFA (per 10 g/day)	-2.6 (-9.0, 4.2)	0.450	-1.2 (-8.3, 5.2)	0.606
n-3 PUFA (per 1 g/day)	-3.0 (-8.0, 2.2)	0.253	-3.1(-8.1, 2.2)	0.249
n-6 PUFA(per 1 g/day)	-0.21 (-1.9, 1.5)	0.806	-0.18 (-1.8, 1.5)	0.834
Long n-3 PUFA (per 0.1 g/day)	-0.19 (-1.6, 1.3)	0.796	-0.25(-1.7, 1.2)	0.733
n-6 PUFA/n-3PUFA (per 0.5)	0.25(-0.53,1.0)	0.532	0.33(-0.45,1.1)	0.417

*Time of measurement (week 12, 25 or 33) was included as a variable in the model
^#Adjusted for the following maternal characteristics: smoking, education, parity, age and BMI before pregnancy and time of measurement (gestational week 12, 25 or 33).
^§This was computed as (10^×-1) × 100 where × is coefficient obtained from the multiple linear analyses.

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